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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Meredith Rouse Joins Autumn Hall
Check out the latest coverage on Autumn Hall in the current issue of Lumina News. Read about the newest addition to our sales team, Meredith Rouse:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
What's the Buzz on Green Building?
Today, the Greater Wilmington Business Journal hosted its first Green Living Expo at the Hilton Wilmington Riverside, and Autumn Hall is excited to be a part of it as an exhibitor. Pictured here, New Homes Specialist Meredith Rouse is eager to discuss Autumn Hall's environmental achievements.Learn more about "green planning" from our developer, Raiford Trask, in his opinion piece in the current issue of the Greater Wilmington Business Journal. Click here.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
One Tree Hill Films at Autumn Hall
Last week, the cast and crew of the CW’s One Tree Hill wrapped filming of an upcoming episode right here at Autumn Hall. The set was nestled in the woods overlooking our 8-acre lake, complete with tents in a camping ground and a zip line for the ropes course. Take a look at the cast and crew in action…
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Announcing Townhomes: Update!
We’re excited to announce that we’re releasing townhomes in the first phase of Autumn Hall. The townhomes will surround and face Shannon Garden, which will serve as a cozy green space for the neighborhood. The townhomes pictured below are inspiration for the level of detail and character you’ll see with the Autumn Hall townhomes. Take a look at the articles below from the Star News, Greater Wilmington Business Journal and the current issue of Lumina News.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Metro Bravo Award 2009
For the second year running, Autumn Hall is pleased to announce that we’ve won Metro Magazine’s Metro Bravo Award for Best Coastal Development. Thank you to the Metro Magazine readers and to our development team for making Autumn Hall such a distinctive community.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
National Award Winning Community: A few words from our arborist
In my 14-year career as an arborist, Autumn Hall is the most tree-friendly project with which I’ve been involved. I’ve had the unique opportunity of working with a tree conscious team from the general contractor, Thomas Construction, to a bulldozer operator with Thomson Construction that helped save a historically important longleaf pine. Together the Autumn Hall Team has worked hard to create an arboreal oasis that will benefit residents and visitors alike for years to come. And people have noticed.
For the second year in a row, Autumn Hall has won a City of Wilmington Tree Commission Award, and, most recently, we received a National Arbor Day Foundation Building with Trees Award of Excellence for promoting best tree preservation practices throughout the construction process. Only 3 communities in the nation received this honor.
Last year, the City of Wilmington gave us awards for Outstanding Tree Preservation and Use of Native Trees. This year, the city recognized us for our tree friendly design in Chapel Park. One of several parks in Autumn Hall, Chapel Park is unique in that it was not included in the original design. Two houses were slated to be built in this area, but during a walk through after the initial design phase, the developer deemed that a grove of live oaks simply could not be destroyed. The live oaks trumped construction, and a playground was built instead. I assessed all the trees in the park for soundness and structural stability, and only trees that were deemed unsafe were removed. All other trees were preserved and pruned where needed. Josh Mihaly, our landscape architect, and I designed a pathway through the park and Brian Humphries, a local architect, designed and built several unique playground structures amongst the trees including a lighthouse tower and a boat run aground.
The National Arbor Day Foundation Award of Excellence recognizes the overall scope of Autumn Hall’s vision as a development. Raiford and the Autumn Hall team have worked hard to put trees at the forefront of the project. Roads have been moved and sewer and water lines rerouted to preserve trees. We removed trees from areas on the property where they could not be saved and planted them as street trees. No house is more than 400 feet sidewalk distance from a park, and native species were preserved in parks and green spaces. Raiford chose to save trees across the property when it would have been cheaper and easier to destroy them. As a developer, he has truly gone the extra mile to create a very special place.
I am very proud to be part of a team fostering green development in Wilmington at a level that is worthy of national praise, and I invite you to experience the grandeur of what we have created.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Autumn Hall Club: Swim & Tennis
Where you spend your life should be important to you. If it’s not, ok, that’s your choice. If it is, read the following from the designer of the Autumn Hall Club, and you’ll get a feeling for why Autumn Hall is so special.
Autumn Hall Civic Buildings
It has been our pleasure to begin the design of a set of buildings for the Autumn Hall community. These buildings will be a group of structures that make up an amenity site for the neighborhood, including a pool and tennis facility. We’ve been asked to comment on the design of the buildings and have four main points that make up the heart of the design focus: the public realm, traditional design, regional materials & methods and finally the experiential aspect.
The public realm is by defined as the parts of a community where we all share in our daily lives. It is the spaces and buildings that shape and define how we live. Typical suburban living really lacks this realm, and Autumn Hall has made defining the public realm one of its priorities. These amenity buildings serve the public realm by functioning as a landmark and by defining public space. Landmarks are essential parts of community fabric and the Autumn Hall buildings will be distinctive in appearance compared to the neighboring housing and other adjacent buildings. These buildings will also be highly visible, terminating several street views and giving strong definition to the public spaces surrounding the buildings.
One of the core design foundations that our firm uses is traditional design methods. We employ forms, proportions and orders that are derived from the Golden Section. The Golden Section is a proportioning system that takes its basis from natural occurring proportions. Everything from an oak leaf, to the human body, to the temples of ancient Greece have similar proportioning. Our believe is that this proportion is enjoyable to view and makes people innately feel better about buildings; it really imparts a human scale to things.
Our other main design principal is the use and understanding of regional materials and methods. Each part of the world is unique in some way, be it climate, soil or some other factor. It is important to us that our work reflects the place it is designed for and we don’t just mean the aesthetic aspect. These buildings for Autumn Hall will be built using as many locally sourced materials as possible. We anticipate using a local brick and timber for much of the buildings for example. Also, the climate of the Wilmington region is one that promotes many passive cooling features such as double hung windows, deep roof eves and taller ceilings for ventilation. These are usable, sustainable techniques that are really common sense “green” and provide the distinctive qualities of Cape Fear architecture.
Lastly, we love to consider the way people will experience our buildings. We think about the human scale of things, as mentioned earlier, but we extend that thought process to the entire experience of our buildings, not just the exterior elevations. We think about how it feels to approach the buildings and how it feels to be in the spaces adjacent to the buildings. The Autumn Hall buildings form a very rich series of distinct and interesting spaces/experience, both from the street side and the pool/tennis side. I will be personally interested to one day watch how the end users of the structures react to the different spaces.
It has been an enjoyable process to assist in the Autumn Hall community. Autumn Hall is providing a good quality of life with its commitment to the public realm and we certainly are glad that we can contribute to that. We look forward to, several years from now, looking back at how the community responds to these buildings.
Sincerely,
Eric S. Brown, Architect
Brown Design Studio
Autumn Hall Civic Buildings
It has been our pleasure to begin the design of a set of buildings for the Autumn Hall community. These buildings will be a group of structures that make up an amenity site for the neighborhood, including a pool and tennis facility. We’ve been asked to comment on the design of the buildings and have four main points that make up the heart of the design focus: the public realm, traditional design, regional materials & methods and finally the experiential aspect.
The public realm is by defined as the parts of a community where we all share in our daily lives. It is the spaces and buildings that shape and define how we live. Typical suburban living really lacks this realm, and Autumn Hall has made defining the public realm one of its priorities. These amenity buildings serve the public realm by functioning as a landmark and by defining public space. Landmarks are essential parts of community fabric and the Autumn Hall buildings will be distinctive in appearance compared to the neighboring housing and other adjacent buildings. These buildings will also be highly visible, terminating several street views and giving strong definition to the public spaces surrounding the buildings.
One of the core design foundations that our firm uses is traditional design methods. We employ forms, proportions and orders that are derived from the Golden Section. The Golden Section is a proportioning system that takes its basis from natural occurring proportions. Everything from an oak leaf, to the human body, to the temples of ancient Greece have similar proportioning. Our believe is that this proportion is enjoyable to view and makes people innately feel better about buildings; it really imparts a human scale to things.
Our other main design principal is the use and understanding of regional materials and methods. Each part of the world is unique in some way, be it climate, soil or some other factor. It is important to us that our work reflects the place it is designed for and we don’t just mean the aesthetic aspect. These buildings for Autumn Hall will be built using as many locally sourced materials as possible. We anticipate using a local brick and timber for much of the buildings for example. Also, the climate of the Wilmington region is one that promotes many passive cooling features such as double hung windows, deep roof eves and taller ceilings for ventilation. These are usable, sustainable techniques that are really common sense “green” and provide the distinctive qualities of Cape Fear architecture.
Lastly, we love to consider the way people will experience our buildings. We think about the human scale of things, as mentioned earlier, but we extend that thought process to the entire experience of our buildings, not just the exterior elevations. We think about how it feels to approach the buildings and how it feels to be in the spaces adjacent to the buildings. The Autumn Hall buildings form a very rich series of distinct and interesting spaces/experience, both from the street side and the pool/tennis side. I will be personally interested to one day watch how the end users of the structures react to the different spaces.
It has been an enjoyable process to assist in the Autumn Hall community. Autumn Hall is providing a good quality of life with its commitment to the public realm and we certainly are glad that we can contribute to that. We look forward to, several years from now, looking back at how the community responds to these buildings.
Sincerely,
Eric S. Brown, Architect
Brown Design Studio
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Exciting Financing Incentive at Autumn Hall
Is it just us or does everyone feel like all of the TARP money went into giant black holes located on Wall Street and in Detroit? Well, here is a surprise- TARP funds being used for something that can help your own economy. Please see below:Autumn Hall is now offering a home, built by Paragon Custom Homes, with 100% financing (no down payment), amortized over a 30 year fixed period with a low Interest Rate of 3.875% and a low APR of 3.97%. Buyer must qualify. This offer expires on July 1, 2009! This beautiful home is now well underway, and it's anticipated to be completed by the end of July. Buyer still has the opportunity to customize some interior features and landscape plan. Click here to download more information on this home.
Please note that this promotion is bank financed and is subject to change or termination at any time. This promotion only applies to a select home in Autumn Hall. Please contact the sales center for more information at 910-799-8755 or 910-622-4660 (on call agent).
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