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Finally complete, the Watt Towers’ restoration is a turning point for public art in Los Angeles

Archinect

One of Los Angeles ’ most significant cultural landmarks, Simon Rodia ’s monumental Watts Towers sculpture, finally re-opened last month after a five-year multimillion-dollar restoration effort spearheaded by LACMA. Taken May 4, 2022, by Sara Chao. Image via Covizzi's Instagram ©master_conservation.

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Finally complete, the Watts Towers’ restoration is a turning point for public art in Los Angeles

Archinect

One of Los Angeles ’ most significant cultural landmarks, Simon Rodia ’s monumental Watts Towers sculpture, finally re-opened last month after a five-year multimillion-dollar restoration effort spearheaded by LACMA. Taken May 4, 2022, by Sara Chao. Image via Covizzi's Instagram ©master_conservation.

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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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Field Operations converts restored Staten Island landfill into wetland park

Deezen

The project consists of a 21-acre swath of land that connects visitors to the interior of the park It once contained five "massive" landfill mounds before it closed to the public in 2001 to undergo redevelopment. The post Field Operations converts restored Staten Island landfill into wetland park appeared first on Dezeen.

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A futuristic Venice Beach villa lists for $5.8m

The Spaces

Tectonic House was built by the Viennese studio in 2001 with a design celebrating the location’s vibrancy and diversity. Restored Bob Lewis ranch home hits the market in Vancouver. It consists of two steel-framed glass towers linked by an upper bridge designed to draw the air upwards through roof openings for natural ventilation.

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225 Polk // HASTINGS Architecture

Architizer

After the Main Library was relocated in 2001 the building remained dormant for long periods until private owners purchased it with the intent to restore the original structure and give the building new life as creative office space. © HASTINGS Architecture. © HASTINGS Architecture.

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Lever House renovation and restoration by SOM

aasarchitecture

SOM revisited the building in 2001 to completely restore its facade. Now, after nearly 70 years of operation, some of the building’s other original elements are showing their age and need restoration. Today – two decades after the facade work – SOM is returning to this modernist icon to complete its restoration.