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SOM completes restoration of New York's historic Lever House

Deezen

US-based architecture studio SOM has completed a restoration of the Lever House seventy years after the studio originally designed the historic New York City office building. We've restored the plaza and podium to its original 1952 glory while comprehensively overhauling the mechanical systems."

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Basking in Natural Beauty: 6 Contemporary Architecture Projects Set in the Basque Landscape

Architizer

As wealthy foreigners and locals continue to build, we see a new wave of contemporary designs within the traditional Basque landscape. The following six projects demonstrate that when a deep appreciation for Basque heritage is present, contemporary architecture can harmonize with the traditional landscape.

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Hugh Broughton Architects transforms Sheerness Dockyard Church into community hub

Deezen

Hugh Broughton Architects has completed a sensitive restoration of a 19th-century church to provide a community hub in a historic dockyard on the Isle of Sheppey. These contrast with light-touch contemporary interventions supporting the space's new use. A dockyard wall separates it from the town centre.

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Wild and Free: Why The Revolutionary Design Collective Memphis Milano Still Matters

Architizer

of the most contemporary looks like Corporate Memphis , an instantly recognizable and widely hated visual language that just might be the hegemonic consumer aesthetic of our time. What Sottsass and his allies in the Memphis Group believed in was restoring joy and fun to architecture and design. This is true even — especially? —

Design 108
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Patricia Urquiola named interior designer of the year at Dezeen Awards 2023

Deezen

Establishing her eponymous studio in 2001, Urquiola has since assumed the role of art director at the Italian furniture manufacturer Cassina , which she has held since 2015. Originally constructed in the 15th century, the space underwent a restoration by Urquiola, which uncovered a grand central staircase and a UNESCO-listed facade.

Interior 111
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Treasure Island: The Museum Island Berlin is a Trove of Art, Architecture and History

Architizer

The building was once reconstructed in the post-war period to house contemporary artworks of the GDR. Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht took the recent restoration work, which won the competition in 1998. Yet, major restoration work has not been done but some emergent repairs. Classical antiquities are already visible there.

Art 97
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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Gray infrastructure and channelized rivers of the past century are being increasingly daylit and replaced with naturalized environments that absorb water and restore wildlife habitats. A modern science of landscape ecology and contemporary design with traditional knowledge about farming and upgraded techniques to solve today’s problems.”