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Our multi-disciplinary studio is now located at 210 North Columbia Street in downtown Chapel Hill in preparation for future growth. A few years ago, we relocated our firm and home from Los Angeles to North Carolina’s thriving Triangle region. We’ve been working in the converted 1882 Depot in Carrboro almost every day since then. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed the historic Depot (especially its location next to Weaver Street Market). But two issues have concerned us. One is the need for more space as the firm grows This move will accommodate growth. Also, pod a+d is licensed in five states because our work takes us from here to California by way of Brooklyn, NY, Louisville, KY, and other project sites in between. And more often than not, whenever we tell out-of-state clients that our firm is headquartered in Carrboro, the look on their faces makes us add quickly, “right next door to Chapel Hill.” Like Duke University in Durham, UNC-Chapel Hill has given the town a national reputation, especially the hospital and, of course, the UNC Tar Heels. Ultimately, it made sense to us to align our firm with that distinction. So on August 21, we loaded a moving van at the Depot, drove a few blocks north east, then unloaded the van at 201A North Columbia Street. As soon as all of the boxes are empty, the computers, work stations, and conference table set up, and we’re happily ensconced in our new studio, we’ll venture out and about to get to know our new neighbors and enjoy the vibe and vibrancy of the downtown district in “the southern part of heaven.” We invite each of you to drop by any time to check out the new space! With gratitude for the part you’ve each played in the evolution of our non-traditional practice, Youn Choi and Doug Pierson founders | designers | partners, pod architecture + design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1512090640497-TO8SL6W0AF875HU0VRR6/podand_logo.png About https://www.podand.com/new-page-53 daily 0.75 2017-11-17 https://www.podand.com/pod-a-d-services-1 daily 0.75 2018-02-13 https://www.podand.com/team daily 0.75 2017-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1510944787998-S14FR9NQQMSOIDEFF3NU/doug5.jpg Team Douglas V. Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C Design Principal & Partner Lic. # C-27940 Douglas V. Pierson is a founding partner for pod architecture + design and heads up the architectural studio for the office. Prior to pod a+d, he spent 10 years as a partner with form, environment, research (fer) studio L.L.P. and helped establish the award winning office as a forerunner in contemporary design. As a former Project Architect with Frank Gehry’s celebrated Los Angeles office, Gehry Partners L.L.P., and Hodgetts and Fung Design Associates, Douglas developed progressive academic, commercial, civic, cultural, and residential projects for each of the offices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1509831122131-T6M0KFJG4D7Y1H08FYL3/pod_Youn.jpg Team Youn Choi Design Principal & Partner Integrated Experiential graphic and Interior Design Youn Choi, as a founding partner and Creative Director of pod architecture + design PLLC, heads up the Experiential Graphics, Wayfinding, and Interiors for the office. Prior to pod a+d, she designed and developed projects as a sole proprietor, and as a creative lead for Selbert Perkins Design in Los Angeles. She also started her career with years of work with Disney Imagineering and Sussman-Prejza and Co. She provides environmental graphic design services with a mission to develop inspirational design, and collaborates with municipalities, public agencies, owners, developers, landscape architects, and the public to create innovative and inspirational branded environments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1509831551765-GOSCB7A1Z1XRIKBWBKME/fer_Justin.jpg Team Justin Williams Project Architect https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1510944622733-T110W6SDSW05EBS2O01P/DSC_3808_2.jpg Team Barbora Ngaboyamahina Associate The following is placeholder text known as “lorem ipsum,” which is scrambled Latin used by designers to mimic real copy. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae. Suspendisse nec congue purus. In sit amet felis malesuada, feugiat purus eget, varius mi. 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Make it stand out Award-winning distillery and cocktail bar in Durham expands east into Wilson, NC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/8a0f2098-d067-440c-9f4e-b74c5401ad0d/250610_TIME+SPACE+EXISTENCE+2025+ARCHITECTURE+BIENNIAL_PR+Tall+5_47.png pod news - Make it stand out The top bourbon distillery tour in the world is right here in Louisville. Rabbit Hole Distillery, 711 E. Jefferson St., was recently named North America’s Leading Bourbon Distillery Tour for 2025 by the World Travel Awards, a world-wide competition considered the "Super Bowl" of the tourism industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1f17e8d5-615e-432a-94d3-2dc0f90aeea7/pod+a%2Bd_RH_2025+BIENNIAL_12.png pod news - Make it stand out May 27, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/0fe06c72-2d2d-4be3-88f0-7651187dc224/doug-talk-on-rh-exp._aisc.png pod news - Make it stand out Architect Doug Pierson addresses the steel industry at the 2025 AISC conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/3e5a3d57-eaf3-4f21-935c-4315bcf59be7/rh-at-aisc_doug-conducting-tour.png pod news - Make it stand out Doug led two groups of AISC participants on a tour of Rabbit Hole Distillery, pictured here inside the Manufacturing Atrium. (Photo by Brian Bohannon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/edaf8b19-0f35-4029-9b8a-056f56950578/Doug-%26-Youn2.jpg pod news - Make it stand out Doug Pierson and Youn Choi, founding partners, pod architecture + design. (Photo by Sora Pierson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/f2fe3203-8616-4347-b2bf-79f2f7157759/pod+a%2Bd_RH20-31.png pod news - Make it stand out The founders of pod architecture + design of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, offer key considerations for building a distillery. Rabbit Hole Distillery, Louisville, Kentucky By Doug Pierson and Youn Choi Distilleries are labors of love. They must be. What other reason is there for sane people to take on such a complicated, often frustrating, and always expensive enterprise both willfully and cheerfully? Having had the pleasure of working with many intrepid entrepreneurs in the industry, [we’re] now convinced that a driving passion for the distillery process and product is the key to coping with all the complexity. In Louisville, Kentucky, Kaveh Zamanian, a truly courageous client of ours, decided to leave a successful career as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst to relocate to Louisville with his wife, a Louisville native. His purpose: In the heart of that city’s historic downtown district, he would build, own, and operate a new 55,000-square-foot bourbon distillery that would “challenge the status quo and offer a new vision of what an authentic whiskey can be,” he said. He calls his decision to abandon an established, lucrative career to risk everything for a dream “diving down the rabbit hole.” And he named that dream Rabbit Hole Distillery. Whether you envision a large, urban distillery as Kaveh Zamanian did, or you’ve got your eye on a 3000-square-foot warehouse ca. 1930, know this: The top contributor to the success of the building portion of your future distillery is starting the process as early as possible, beginning with what architects call the Program. Read More… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/48ebf682-a823-4db6-a7fe-26c2382b8f95/pod+a%2Bd_RH-DJI_0614-HDR_2.jpg pod news - Make it stand out Rabbit Hole Distillery, downtown Louisville, at night. Photo © Steve Girder The modern “Urban Bourbon Cathedral” helps Louisville, KY, become one of NYT’s “52 Places to Go in 2023” January 31, 2023 (Chapel Hill, NC) — The New York Times cites Rabbit Hole Distillery, designed by pod architecture + design (pod a+d) of Chapel Hill, as one of the reasons Louisville, Kentucky, made its international list of the “52 Places to Go in 2023.” Rabbit Hole Distillery is a modern, metal, 45,000-square-foot, $15 million bourbon distillery in the heart of the NuLu district adjacent to downtown Louisville. It has also been an award-winning accomplishment for pod a+d founders Doug Pierson, AIA, and Youn Choi. When the new distillery opened to much fanfare in 2018, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association president Eric Gregory remarked, “We could not be more impressed with this facility that you’ve built here. It’s absolutely a modern monument to our legendary industry.” Distillery.com called it an “Urban Bourbon Cathedral.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/bf0767f3-9ad2-4f8f-8364-e7135e6dc864/pod+a%2Bd_RH20-29.jpg pod news - Make it stand out During an event in Rabbit Hole’s “Overlook” lounge, guests enjoy a skyline view of downtown Louiseville from the balcony. Online, the NYT article includes a video with the Louisville section that takes readers inside Rabbit Hole’s innovative “Manufacturing Atrium” where bourbon mash is bubbling in a huge fermentation tank and the distilling process has begun in the 48-foot-tall copper still nearby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/ac1f0173-340f-4616-9d03-3e8ddcc5c8bb/pod+a%2Bd_+RH+TANK+EXPANSION_2605_3.jpg pod news - Make it stand out The distillery’s transparent Manufacturing Atrium rises above the small Tank Expansion building. “Something Really Special…for the City of Louisville” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/94913495-bcf3-4698-b728-1d248ba0cb29/pod-a%2Bd_Devonian-Motel-2-1.jpg pod news - Make it stand out Rendering of The Devonian Hotel going up in the Portland neighborhood. Rendering by pod +d. LOUISVILLE-COURIER JOURNAL: “A hotel in western Louisville? Well-known developer has big plans in Portland.” By Rae Johnson Louisville developer Gill Holland’s latest project plans to bring a long-awaited business to Portland. Holland and partners are bringing “The Devonian,” a 17,000-square-foot historically inspired “community hotel” to life in the West End neighborhood. The project, a plan from pod architecture + design and with a name inspired by the Paleozoic era, is aimed at offering a short-term place to stay for locals and travelers alike. READ MORE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/295964c5-e4b6-4cb3-af8c-7208fdd7d070/pod+a%2Bd_Liberty+and+Plenty+distillery+2-08.jpg pod news - Make it stand out May 2, 2023 The distillery’s cocktail bar and tasting room. Photos by Trey Thomas Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1635523521601-DVKSSX21G5R6JJ8HQ6MG/pod+a%2Bd_Hillside+House+NC_7.jpg pod news - Make it stand out View from the creek-side elevation (Photos by pod architecture+design) October 21, 2021 The location is tucked into a protected forested area covered in trees with a creek nearby. It’s an odd-shaped lot with a hillside and boulders, surrounded by nature. It was a huge challenge for architect Doug Pierson and designer Youn Choi, but the end result is absolutely stunning. READ MORE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1589221645408-72IZJCY3YU2EVMBKDRDX/Screen+Shot+2020-04-17+at+1.35.22+PM.png pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1589221795507-SCVPWOBKFCI3U1P5AKEG/pod+architecture%2Bdesign_Carrboro+House+NC_.WSJ1jpg.jpg pod news THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: “For These Unique Homes, Being the Odd One Out Has Its Ups and Downs” Outliers in architecturally distinct areas can linger on the market, but fetch a premium over comparable homes. By Katy McLaughlin | Photos by James M. Lange …Youn Choi and her husband Doug Pierson are just finishing construction of a home in Carrboro, N.C., that is so “unique” and “quirky” that neighbors stand and stare at it from the road, said Mr. Pierson, 55. One curious passerby called out “what is that?” When Mr. Pierson answered “it’s a house,” he responded, “really?” In general, neighbors have been encouraging, flashing “thumbs-up” signs or telling the couple they like it. Mr. Pierson and his wife, who co-own an architecture and design firm in Chapel Hill, N.C., moved from Los Angeles, where they worked for contemporary design firms. Their suburban community features some historic mill houses and lots of newer, traditional homes. But the house the couple designed, with its snakelike form, cantilevered angles and black, corrugated-metal cladding, has few precedents in the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1572986045067-JQ0JNADZ0GT7BSHCOG36/pod+architecture%2Bdesign_press_Thumbnail_1-08.png pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1635523940281-469R6QYKRR7HX7U5AF2L/pod+a%2Bd_RH01.png pod news - Make it stand out Main public entrance. The manufacturing atrium rises behind it. September 19, 2021 For this unique facility — a modern structure in an industry steeped in tradition — the design team embraced the strategy “form follows process,” allowing the building to take shape in response to the bourbon production process it would house. The result: a distinctive, responsive building that shares its design and purpose equally with the building’s capacious copper and steel equipment. Taking a cue from Louis Kahn’s Salt Institute, the overall form is divided into “service” (warehouse) and “served” (atrium and event space) volumes. A public passageway navigates between the two without intruding on either before it ascends, on a meandering path, through the 60-foot-tall Manufacturing Atrium enclosed by glass and blackened wood louvres. The path continues over the fermentation tanks, around the 48-foot-tall copper still, and on to “Overlook,” the 150-seat event space. READ MORE & VIEW GALLERY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1635265515825-Q4M2WNM7V3VUZIF8NSWB/Render+5.jpg pod news - Make it stand out An adaptive re-use project by pod architecture + design February 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1635264069796-7PIO4NZR8BNSGUOB336A/pod+a%2Bd_RH_Night.jpg pod news - Make it stand out March 16, 2021 Made up of new construction and the adaptive reuse of an old warehouse and church building, the Rabbit Hole Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky’s East Market District (aka Nulu) is truly a campus, with retail, dining, office and event spaces, in addition to those for manufacturing bourbon, rye, and other spirits. The architects at North Carolina’s pod architecture + design answered a few questions about the project. READ MORE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/258dd787-d818-4ca0-a301-6cbc1b0b2da8/IMG_2072-Recovered_4.jpg pod news - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/937f3c63-dc33-4283-9a7f-374bef2e82dc/podand_George+Matsumoto+Prize.JPG pod news - Make it stand out Designers/homeowners Youn Choi and Doug Pierson, AIA, receive their award from George Smart (right), founder/director, NC Modernist.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/33f7953e-0cd2-44e8-a046-73ebefec9ee7/pod+a%2Bd_+RH+TANK+EXPANSION_2613.jpg pod news - Make it stand out At night, the utilitarian building glows like a lantern in the dark. (Photos by Youn Choi) Metal Construction News magazine (MCN), a national trade publication for the metal industry, has announced that the new Tank Expansion Building on Rabbit Hole Distillery’s campus in downtown Louisville, KY, designed by Chapel Hill, NC’s pod architecture + design (pod a+d), has won the 2022 Project Excellence Award for “Metal Walls – New Construction” in MCN’s annual Building & Roofing Awards program. Under the headline “Jewel in an Alley,” the project is featured in the December edition of Metal Construction News, both print and digital. In 2018, pod a+d partners and principals Doug Pierson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, and his wife, experiential designer Youn Choi, completed Rabbit Hole’s original structure: a modern, predominately metal, $15 million, 55,000-square-foot bourbon distillery. Subsequently, Rabbit Hole Distillery became that year’s Grand Award Winner among all of the MCN Building & Roofing Awards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1635265868880-U1URHTLJLRWO1EGTXGWJ/render_Dark-Blue2.jpg pod news - Make it stand out Expanding a bourbon distillery’s tank space is rarely an architectural opportunity. Tank rooms are hard-working, utilitarian structures where huge metal tanks ferment, distill, and filter the owner’s spirits of choice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1572986397386-VNBQQ5RW1CHXNSCCMO3A/pod+architecture%2Bdesign_press_Thumbnail_1-09.png pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573057829395-U3ULXXZ17BOCHM37JU4N/Sixty-Hotel-1.jpg pod news “California cool meets manicured elegance at SIXTY Beverly Hill… This modern Beverly Hills hotel blends upscale comfort with custom made furniture and unexpected design elements.” – Hospitality Online.com “With dark woods, deep leathers, smooth marble and lots of mirrors, the Sixty Beverly Hills hotel is a sophisticated and tasteful throwback to mid-Seventies luxury and style.” – mrandmrssmith.com The project involved renovating the exterior and interior of an eight-story hotel, including new roof-top bar and pool levels. It was completed in phases. Built on the bones of a 1960s Best Western motel, our goal is for the 92,000-square-foot Sixty Beverly Hills Hotel and Bond Street restaurant to capture the sophisticated cool of late ‘70s and ‘80s design as well as the casual elegance of California modernism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573138999643-YJV47CW1GO6UVP62E7AH/pod+a%2Bd_Doug%26Youn.jpg pod news pod a+d partners present lecture at University of Kentucky College of Design November 6, 2018 Lexington, KY — The University of Kentucky’s College of Design website notes: “The College of Design has a revered history for enticing major talent to share their knowledge firsthand through its annual lecture series and workshop offerings. ” On November 7 at 5 p.m., Doug Pierson and Youn Choi, founding partners and design principals of pod architecture + design in Carrboro, NC, will present a lecture at the UK COD, Lexington, KY, entitled “Establishing a Way of Working.” The website describes the lecture as follows: Learn how to compare shared influencing factors on varying projects with Doug Pierson, founder of POD A+D, and co-founder Youn Choi. Pierson founded pod architecture + design in 2016 with his partner in work and life, Youn Choi. Together, they lead a hybrid, integrated design studio that provides services in architecture, interiors, environmental and experiential graphics, urban design, and master planning – all within the same studio. They recently relocated their multi-faceted firm from Los Angeles to North Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1635263508601-7KOYQ29ECXGLMCWFK2OP/pod+a%2Bd_Hillside+House+NC_CH+Mag_7_2-20.jpg pod news - Make it stand out The driveway leads to the main entrance at ground level. Click HERE to see the entire feature on the Carrboro House on a Hillside, designed by pod architecture + design, in the January/February 2021 edition of Chapel Hill Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1635264994641-FV3AJC7OQQ5GM30EEJ2O/WallStreetJournal-175710.jpg pod news - Make it stand out May 7, 2020 When Durham Magazine editors looked around the Triangle to discover how a sampling of residents are making the most of the current COVID-19 quarantine, they called pod architecture + design in Chapel Hill to chat with architect Doug Pierson and experiential graphics designer Youn Choi, partners in life as well as the award-winning firm. The magazine posted the full story at durhammag.com/how-we-live-now-in-quarantine/. Below is Doug’s and Youn’s segment (plus a family photo by Jeremy Lange that appeared recently in the Wall Street Journal.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/66acd9f6-3338-4e9d-a27d-b0eefc070bc9/pod+a%2Bd_211021_render_4+-+Photo.jpg pod news - Make it stand out November 16, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573075310641-16W77HFZS2BSSGE1O4MG/podand_VENICE_exterior-image5.jpg pod news DESIGN MILK: “Venice House is a California House with a Sloping Trapezoidal Roof” April 4, 2018 By Caroline Williamson Among the tightly packed lots in Venice, California, the Venice House is a three-story, energy-efficient residence topped off with a unique, sloping trapezoidal roof. The beach house was designed by pod architecture + design (pod a+d), who also happen to be the owners, and it spans 1390-square-feet, which proved challenging as they had to build three bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths on a compact, 700-square-foot lot. They managed to accomplish that and then some within the white metal and wood clad abode. READ MORE… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573057860331-4YDU1SCPHPE4ZDRODTQD/distillery-e28094-widow-jane-2019-08-24-17-14-44.jpg pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573056082683-LBN6KSB7JZU4S9QS6CSP/whiskey-business-the-top-4-craft-whiskeys-you-need-on-your-bar-shelf-2019-08-24-16-28-57.jpg pod news pod a+d is gaining a strong foothold in the craft distillery design niche “Whiskey Business: The Top Four Craft Whiskeys You Need on Your Bar Shelf,” Few Spirits Widow Jane Distillery Rabbit Hole… What the couple shared that day was the realization that their small, multi-disciplinary design firm in Chapel Hill is now associated with all but one of the manufacturers of the “…top performing whiskey products from craft distilleries” across the nation, according to Provi.com, an e-commerce ordering platform for alcoholic beverages. Meanwhile in Red Hook: More recently, pod a+d received the commission to design a modern facility within a ca. 1940 waterfront warehouse for the darling of the craft Bourbon industry, Widow Jane Distillery in Brooklyn, New York’s Red Hook village. “Named GQ’s #1 Bourbon, Widow Jane is giving Kentucky bourbon a run for its money,” wrote Provi’s Ryan Philemon about the distillery’s prize beverage, which is made with mineral water created from the limestone used to build the Statue of Liberty and the White House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573064081171-12JNKB6JCW584DPU156B/_DSC5670_3.jpg pod news On The Boards: pod architecture + design partners reveal plans for their modern house on a hillside Eager to plant their roots more deeply into their new hometown, experiential graphics designer Youn Choi and award-winning architect Doug Pierson, AIA, partners in life and founding partners of pod architecture + design (pod a+d) in Chapel Hill , have designed a modern house for their family of four that they’re about to build on a site that poses a host of challenges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1572986154551-UVKI7DV56CMBBSBULCJH/pod+architecture%2Bdesign_press_Thumbnail_1-10.png pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573065359662-T0UE05GEVX4FUAZVT3UO/podand_THE+GREEN+BUILDING_profile.jpg pod news Subversive Sustainability: Subtle Aspects That Form a Powerful Narrative We designed the first LEED Platinum building in the downtown Louisville, Kentucky, area known as The Green Building. It opened in 2008. Little did we know that 10 years later, we would be commissioned to design the new Rabbit Hole Distilling campus right next door. We completed the main distilling building earlier this year. August 31, 2018 TREEHUGGER.com: “Green Building in Louisville Really Is Green, Now LEED Platinum” December 14, 2010 By Lloyd Alter One post on TreeHugger says The Greenest Brick is the One That’s Already in the Wall; another that LEED stands for “Lunatic Environmentalists Enthusiastically Demolishing”. But now we are beginning to see the best of both worlds, with very green renovations and restorations, like the eponymously named Green Building in Louisville, Kentucky; it has just been certified LEED Platinum. It’s the first LEED Platinum project in Louisville and the first LEED-certified adaptive reuse project in the entire state. But it is also part of a larger context… READ MORE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1572987351834-WGHCFFKSE763NS627AKP/pod+architecture%2Bdesign_press_Thumbnail_1-12.png pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573138086651-DXLQEPTCNM4URBID3A7Y/pod+a%2Bd_Doug.jpg pod news Douglas Pierson Joins AIA Triangle Board of Directors December 10, 2018 Douglas Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, co-founder/principal designer of pod architecture + design (pod a+d), has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Triangle section, American Institute of Architects (AIAT) for a two-year term. The AIA Triangle’s mission is “to serve its members and the Triangle community by enhancing and promoting the profession of architecture.” The AIA Triangle Board of Directors governs the overall execution of the organization’s mission. Within the last two years, Pierson and his wife, co-founder/principal designer Youn Choi, relocated their firm and family from Los Angeles, CA, to Carrboro, establishing their studio in the historic train depot building on Main Street. As a relative newcomer to the area, Pierson has been immersing himself in the Triangle region’s architectural community, first by becoming a Professor in Practice at the NC State School of Architecture, then by joining the Triangle Architecture & Design Society (TADS). He and Choi have also hosted a “Thirst4Architecture” networking event sponsored by North Carolina Modernist Houses and opened their studio to the public as part of AIA Triangle’s recent “Firm Crawl.” “Joining the AIA Triangle Board is an honor and a great opportunity to serve the profession in and around our new hometown,” said Pierson. He hopes to use his experience with nonprofit organizations, community service, fundraising, advocacy, and education to support the work of the Board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573062674365-6GS30LA3AL2EIAX9UCNN/20x20_podand_poster-01.png pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573063252431-HNEO1YWQK6435YF36J0B/20x20_podand_poster-05.png pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573063188227-SO7GEA32X40HXTGDLIBO/20x20_podand_poster-06.png pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573063043722-P42BQJSM4SP02I8D3P22/20x20_podand_poster-03.png pod news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1573063313465-SMTFM8BZJWGQF5CZXBU6/20x20_podand_poster-04.png pod news How structure is perceived from day to night is the theme of the presentation that pod architecture + design (pod a+d) in Chapel Hill is contributing to the upcoming N.C. State University School of Architecture Alumni Exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1575487567353-HUMONELP1FGSQAGSKB28/IMG_0344_2.jpg pod news pod architecture + design hosts Thirst4Architecture August 16 For the first time since moving back to North Carolina from the West Coast, Youn Choi and Doug Pierson, founders and principals of pod architecture + design (pod a+d) in Carrboro, will host Thirst4Architecture (T4A) to celebrate modern architecture and the people in the Triangle who love it on Thursday, August 16, 2018 from 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public, the event is one of the monthly happy hour networking social occasions established by North Carolina Modernist Houses and will be held in the firm’s studio in the historic train depot in the heart of downtown Carrboro. T4A is an opportunity for anyone interested in and associated with modern architecture to mix, mingle, and build relationships with other modern design enthusiasts in a relaxed, casual environment. Pierson and Choi will provide the location, food, and beverages while participants get an up-close look at pod a+d’s work through models and drawings. A Special Treat for T4A Guests Award-winning architect Doug Pierson, AIA, recently attended the grand opening of one of his firm’s most ambitious projects to date: Rabbit Hole Distillery, a state-of-the-art, 55,000-square-foot, $15 million bourbon distillery and campus in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. For their T4A event, Pierson and Choi are having Rabbit Hole’s award-winning bourbon shipped to Carrboro. The bar staff provided by Drew Moore, owner of CrossTies Barbeque (201-East Main Street) and several other local establishments, will serve special bourbon-based cocktails as well as “straight” and “on the rocks” options, and soft drinks for pod a+d’s August 16 event. Moore is also providing CrossTie’s popular “Brisket Sliders” for the evening’s savory selection. “As local as possible” Pierson and Choi, partners in life as well as work, are relative newcomers to the Triangle architecture and design community, having recently returned from living and working on the West Coast. Their new modern house in Carrboro, which they designed together for their family of four, is under construction and will plant their roots here even deeper. “We’re so happy to be back,” Pierson said, “that we’re doing everything we can to be as ‘local’ as possible. That’s why we chose space in the old depot for our offices. We’re active in the community, we shop at the Farmers Market and Weaver Street, and we’re working with one of the best high-performance, or ‘green,’ homebuilders for our new house: Kevin Murphy of Newphire Building in Chapel Hill. We’re also hiring all-local subcontractors and vendors, including the lumber supplier.” He smiled. “And we’re always free to talk when people walk in and tell us that our space doesn’t look like a barbeque joint.” He explained that people often mistake the firm’s front door for the entrance to Cross Ties. pod architecture + design is located at 210 N, Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, (919.246.6466) For more information, visit www.podand.com. pod a + d is also available on Facebook. https://www.podand.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2019-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1553181855850-N8I0SEBSOZQH1OU09NTE/pod+architecture%2Bdesign4.jpg Copy of About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1527618079918-YCM6LCR9AEJ519YTR21M/pod-a%2Bd-teamphoto3.jpg Copy of About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5720e27840261db214d8e617/1567540286499-G4EYAL19G0O45QDKDQ81/pod+a%2Bd+Office+Move1.JPG Copy of About Dear clients, colleagues, and friends, pod architecture + design (pod a+d), the award-winning design firm previously located on Main Street in Carrboro, has moved. Our multi-disciplinary studio is now located at 210 North Columbia Street in downtown Chapel Hill in preparation for future growth. A few years ago, we relocated our firm and home from Los Angeles to North Carolina’s thriving Triangle region. We’ve been working in the converted 1882 Depot in Carrboro almost every day since then. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed the historic Depot (especially its location next to Weaver Street Market). But two issues have concerned us. One is the need for more space as the firm grows This move will accommodate growth. Also, pod a+d is licensed in five states because our work takes us from here to California by way of Brooklyn, NY, Louisville, KY, and other project sites in between. And more often than not, whenever we tell out-of-state clients that our firm is headquartered in Carrboro, the look on their faces makes us add quickly, “right next door to Chapel Hill.” Like Duke University in Durham, UNC-Chapel Hill has given the town a national reputation, especially the hospital and, of course, the UNC Tar Heels. Ultimately, it made sense to us to align our firm with that distinction. So on August 21, we loaded a moving van at the Depot, drove a few blocks north east, then unloaded the van at 201A North Columbia Street. As soon as all of the boxes are empty, the computers, work stations, and conference table set up, and we’re happily ensconced in our new studio, we’ll venture out and about to get to know our new neighbors and enjoy the vibe and vibrancy of the downtown district in “the southern part of heaven.” We invite each of you to drop by any time to check out the new space! 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