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LA's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House to reopen on August 18th

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During this time, LA's Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) embarked on “significant transformations” at the Hollyhock House and Residence A, a guest house (also designed by Wright) located at the same site. In addition, the home’s prominent fireplace was restored, and two Wright-designed sofas were reinstalled.

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LA's Frank Llyod Wright-designed Hollyhock House to reopen on August 18th

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During this time, LA's Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) embarked on “significant transformations” at the Hollyhock House and Residence A, a guest house (also designed by Wright) located at the same site. In addition, the home’s prominent fireplace was restored, and two Wright-designed sofas were reinstalled.

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Philip Johnson's Glass House guest annexe reopens after restoration

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US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House annexe, the Brick House, has been restored and reopened following a 15-year closure in Connecticut. Architect Mark Stoner has led the restoration of Philip Johnson's Brick House It follows the building's closure in 2008 after the structure suffered ongoing "water intrusion" due to its sloping site.

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Ten notable projects by 2025 Royal Gold Medal-winner SANAA

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Photo by Dean Kaufman New Museum of Contemporary Art, US, 2007 Composed of a set of stacked blocks, the eight-storey New Museum of Contemporary Art was completed in 2007 by SANAA alongside Gensler on a compact site in downtown Manhattan. Terraces run around the building's east and south facades.

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One Night in a Restored New Orleans Haven for Legendary Black Musicians

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After Hurricane Katrina leveled the Dew Drop Inn, a developer spent three years rehabilitating the storied site as a 17-room boutique hotel, music venue, and pool club. Though in disrepair, the hotel operated until 2005, when Katrina upended the establishment. When Painia passed away in 1972, his family members inherited the building.

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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios completes "invisible repair" of world's first cast iron building

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Shrewsbury Flamill Maltings is the world's first cast iron building The site was used as a flax mill before being converted into a maltings, or malt house, and serving a stint as a temporary barracks during the second world war. In 1987 the mill was closed and stood neglected until its eventual purchase by Historic England in 2005.

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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: R

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What grew to become the Romania group of car dealerships was a force on the local scene when I first arrived in Eugene in 1980, and it remained so up until the time the Romania family sold its Chevrolet dealership to the University of Oregon in 2005. Since purchasing the strategically important location, the university repurposed the 4.0-acre