Modern Charleston
A comprehensive architectural survey of buildings built in the Charleston historic district from 2000 to 2015.
Charleston, South Carolina is a city with an incredibly rich architectural, urban, social, religious and political history. With its cobblestone streets, wrought-iron gates, piazza-lined single houses, and church steeples towering over all: these are the images that come to mind when you think of Charleston's architecture.
A photographic 360° virtual experience of the Modern Charleston project.
A lot of discussion has been generated over the past months and years regarding the new architecture being proposed or built in the historic district of Charleston, South Carolina. (It has been written about here, here, and here.) (Or read even more: here, here, here, and here.)
Ugly, uninspired, and just not beautiful. These were some of the claims we heard about the new projects going up in Charleston. As visitors to the city and newcomers to the discussion, we (the authors behind this project) weren’t satisfied with just reading about the recent developments and going along with secondary source reports. So, we started asking questions:
We wanted to see for ourselves what everybody was talking about, and we wanted to know what actually has been built in the past 15 years in Charleston.
We surveyed a total of 28 buildings that have been built or are currently under construction in Charleston between 2000-2015. Click on the building name (below each photo) to learn more.
You can also browse the project through tags, which allow you to view buildings with similar characteristics. Try for yourself - choose one of the options below:
We took a closer, cross-comparative look at the 28 buildings surveyed and have created these diagrams in order to provide the opportunity for analysis and critique.