Daniels Middle School To Host Solar Pilot Program
Tomorrow morning Daniels Middle School will officially unveil a set of new solar photovoltaic arrays. The $20,000, 2-KW solar PV system is connected to the school’s electrical system and to internet-based monitoring equipment. This will enable students to study the panels’ electricity.
The SunSense schools program is part of a partnership between Progress Energy Carolinas and the Carolina Hurricanes Kids ’N Community Foundation. It provides a hands-on educational program for middle school and high school students that encourages them to develop innovative energy solutions. Daniels Middle School is one of five winning schools across the Carolinas that received PV arrays and educational materials to help teachers integrate renewable energy learning opportunities into the classroom.
Triangle Modernist Homes Day-Tripping to Washington
While the Mod Squad is taking a bus trip to Charlotte in a few weeks, they are also happy to announce a day-trip to Washington, DC. The trip includes stops at the Charles Gwaltney-designed Rales Museum near Potomac, the Richard Neutra-designed Brown Residence, the Gordon Bunshaft-designed Hirshhorn Museum, and the Maya Lin-designed Vietnam Veterans Wall. The trip includes a 6:45am flight to BWI, lunch abord the air-conditioned, internet-equipped tour bus, and a return to RDU at 10:30pm. Dinner is on your own, and about 2 hours are allotted (so there is ample time to get to Rosa Mexicano
)
Tickets
are $459 per person.
Showcase of Kitchens Starts Today
The Junior League of Raleigh’s annual “Showcase of Kitchens” tour began this morning, and runs thru tomorrow. The self-guided tour of 8 ITB showcase kitchens is an outstanding opportunity to learn about design details as well as see special in-home presentations from local restaurants, retail stores, tabletop designs, culinary demonstrations, and more.
The tour features kitchens on the following streets (. pdf map )
- Lake Boone Trail
- Rolston Drive
- Rand Drive
- Churchill Road
- Graham Street
- Vance Street
- Oxford Road
- Chesterfield Road
Show times are: Friday and Saturday from 10am – 4pm. Tickets are $25 per person and are available only at the Will Call house at 3026 Churchill Road ( map it ).
Remodelers Home Tour Runs This Weekend
The 2010 Remodelers Home Tour kicks off today featuring 13 excellent house renovations . The tour runs from 10am – 5pm today and 1pm – 5pm tomorrow.
Rescheduled “Visual Acoustics” Showing Tonight
The Nowell’s Architecture Movie Series continues tonight. “Visual Acoustics” will show at the Galaxy Theater in Cary tonight at 7pm. Tickets are $9 per person.
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, “Visual Acoustics” celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman , the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away recently, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images. Have a night out with an exceptional architectural movie!
Rescheduled from December (tickets purchased online last year will be honored).
Downtown Home Tour Coming in May
The
Downtown Raleigh Home Tour
returns Saturday, May 15. The tour, lasting from 10am to 6pm, will include condos in the RBC Plaza, West at North, restored historic houses and new construction. Tickets are $10 in advance, $14 at the door.
Mod Squad Planning Charlotte Trip
The always-interesting
Triangle Modernist Houses
is sponsoring another exciting event. This time the tour goes to Charlotte on May 22 to tour the
Design Within Reach
store, the 1970 Mark Bernstein house, and IKEA. Some of the trip’s features include:
- Our own air-conditioned, restroom-equipped, internet-equipped luxury tour bus.
- Sodas, water, and both healthy and junky snacks provided on board the bus.
- Super green – think of all the carbon we’ll save versus driving down individually.
- Each person gets "storage credits" representing a total of six cubic feet of storage space under the bus. You can trade, buy, or sell credits to others. So, in theory, with enough credits, you could bring a couch home! Plus, all you can carry in your lap. Delivery is also available through DWR and Ikea.
- Lunch is on your own at the IKEA restaurant. Be sure to try the Swedish meatballs!
- Parking is $4 per car, paid separately to FastPark on exit. Dropoffs and pickups are ok, no charge.
Tickets are limited, and are $49.95 before May 1, $58.00 on and after that.
The Container Store Coming To Raleigh
It is extremely hard to contain myself with
TBJ’s news
of North Carolina’s first location for
The Container Store
Coming to Raleigh. The chain’s 49’th store will take the vacant Circuit City store across from Crabtree. The store will open in mid-October.
National Art Interiors Closing Showroom
National Art Interior + Design , the design firm that used to be located in downtown Raleigh at the corner of Hillsborough St. and Glenwood, is closing its doors. The firm, which moved to North Raleigh a couple of years ago, is having a huge showroom closing sale where you can get some big name furniture (Henkel Harris, Baker Furniture, Hickory Chair) at great prices.
The sale is taking place at Sutton Square Shopping Center (on the corner of Falls of Neuse and Spring Forest Roads). Look for the National Art Interior+Design banner. Sale hours are Wednesday – Friday 10 am to 7 pm and Saturday 10 – 6 pm through mid-June or until everything is gone.
Spring Home Tour Begins Today
The Wake County Home Builders Association has had so much success with the Parade of Homes in the fall, that they are doing a spring tour, too. Featuring 76 new, unsold houses across the county, the
Spring New Home Tour
runs today, tomorrow, next Saturday, and next Sunday. Houses will be open from Noon to 5pm each day. For a map of the houses available, see page 16D in today’s News & Observer.
Valentine’s Day is Time To Fertilize
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Of course, you know, I’m talking about nurturing a drought-resistant lawn that is beautiful year round, right? The three times to fertilize a Tall Fescue lawn are the beginning of September (with seeding), Thanksgiving, and Valentine’s Day. The first two are most important as they aim at stimulating good, downward root formation. The Valentine’s Day fertilization promotes a hearty top half of the plant. Fertilizing once the weather is warm is a recipe to creating a lawn that grows too fast and requires too much water to live.
In order to fertilize, one needs to evenly put the adequate amounts of fertilizer down. The rules of thumb around here are 75 lbs of limestone per 1000 feet (to bring pH around these pines and azaleas up), 1 lb of nitrogen per 1000 feet, and 6lbs of tall fescue see per 1000 feet (if seeding, but remember that seed placed in the spring never has the chance to grow downward, and will therefore have to be watered all summer).
In order to fertilize correctly, measure the square footage of the lawn. Then look at the fertilizer offered in the store. There are three numbers XX-YY-ZZ, and the first (XX) is the nitrogen. Divide 100 by this amount, and multiply that resulting number by the number of thousands of the lawn’s square feet. This will result in the correct number of pounds of fertilizer to use.
Frank Harmon To Deliver Harris Lecture
Frank Harmon
, FAIA, will deliver the annual Harwell Hamilton Harris Lecture on February 15 at 7 p.m. The lecture takes place in the Burns Auditorium of Kamphoefner Hall at North Carolina State University’s College of Design in Raleigh.
Sponsored by the College of Design and the Triangle section of the American Institute of Architects/North Carolina, the annual lecture is endowed by the estate of the renowned architect Harwell Hamilton Harris, FAIA (1903-1990) who served on the faculty of NC State’s College of Design from 1962 to 1973.
Frank Harmon is a fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and a Professor in Practice at the College of Design. He is the founder and principal of Frank Harmon Architect PA, a multi-award-winning, LEED AP, green architecture firm established in 1985. He was also a close friend of Harris for many years, and he credits Harris with steering his design sensibilities towards modern, innovative and regionally appropriate design.
A New Way To Leave
The introduction of hand blow dryers in public restrooms often times introduced no clear way to exit without touching an enteric bacteria-coated door handle. To date the best way to exit the bathroom without smearing someone else’s bacteria on your hands is to use a paper towel to touch the door handle. Golden Corral in Cary has a new approach, the door hook. Using the forearm a person tall enough to reach the hook should now be able to leave the restroom with uncontaminated hands. This is especially important in a restaurant that serves finger foods like fried chicken, rolls, etc.
Of course it is still up to the diner to properly wash their hands. According to the CDC , hands should be washed for the length of time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice. Diners should also assign themselves one hand for touching the dirty food bar serving utensils and one for handling food. However for maximum cleanliness, use a dime-sized dollop of alcohol-based gel of at least 60% concentration (40% gels are worthless) after each trip to the food bar. ( CDC Paper , .PDF)
While there are still many routes for disease transmission, it is nice to see a restaurant offering a solution to one of the key sources of sickness.
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