Raleigh, N.C., has had a checkered history when it comes to public art. Its most recent setback came in 2006, when the city council scotched plans for a work by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa that would have graced a plaza on the city’s central axis, Fayetteville Street.

A redemptive moment is at hand, however, as the city prepares to open a $221 million convention center near the Plensa-cleansed plaza.

(Image courtesy Jedidiah Gant/Clearscapes)

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The Catalano House in Raleigh, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of N.C. State.

Midcentury modernism might be enjoying a renaissance in fashion advertising, but it faces a new dark age in suburbia. Modernist houses from the 1950s to the 1970s dot the sylvan hills around Raleigh, N.C., but the neo-colonial hordes are advancing. Read more…