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“Durham is a great place to be an architect,” says David Arneson, founding partner at Center Studio Architecture. The firm designed both Charlie’s condo and the Butlers’ home: two vastly contrasting but equally enjoyable projects for Center Studio, which works on a wide variety of projects throughout Durham. “It’s fun to have an undisturbed woodland setting to put a new home on,” says David (who is married to Durham Magazine art director Sarah Arneson), “and it’s also fun to have an existing 100-year-old building in downtown Durham in which to put a new restaurant or shop or office.” The design process for David stems out of three primary influences: the site, client and architect. “The client tells us everything they want; not just how big, how many rooms and a budget,” he says, “but their style and how they live. And we [as architects] bring our training and talent and history.” Whether the intent is to create a panoramic farmhouse or swanky, art-filled condo, the design grows from these elements informing one another. Charlie’s condo is one of eight in a new mixed-use building downtown that Center Studio designed on a vacant lot. They then customized it to his liking. “The team worked together to create niches and lighting to meet his goals [for the art],” David says. The Butlers
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came to David through a mutual friend, and their single-family home was a custom renovation project. Instead of designing around an art collection, Green Button Farm owners Alicia and Ryan came up with the idea of designing their home around the landscape. “[We] replaced their wimpy screened porch with a soaring space that gives panoramic, south-facing views over their farm,” David says. “The before and after images are pretty dramatic.” – Laura Zolman Kirk
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