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Fern Grove Residence has been honored with COTE Housing Award by AIA North Carolina. A COTE award recognizes project that showcase design excellence and sustainability. This highlights our belief that elevated design can embrace innovation, high-performance and environmental stewardship.

Video from the AIA North Carolina Design Awards ceremony

The Committee on the Environment (COTE) was founded on the idea that sustainability is essential to design excellence and vice versa. COTE has become the industry’s best-known award program recognizing innovative projects integrating exemplary performance with compelling design.

Fern Grove demonstrates that thoughtful architecture can elevate a community while minimizing its environmental footprint. We’re grateful to our partners on this project for bringing this vision to life and AIA North Carolina for this meaningful recognition.

More about Fern Grove

Fern Grove is LEED Gold certified and is an unassuming and modern house carved out of concrete surrounded by ferns and a dense forest. The house is designed with two cantilevered wood and glass boxes resting atop a concrete plinth, their thin monoplane roofs extending like wings. The primary facade is wrapped in beautifully crafted board-formed concrete walls, grounding the house and connecting all its elements.