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Chatillon Architectes restores 1970s sports complex in Paris

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The building, which opened in 1971, was designed by architects Anatole Kopp, Lucien Metrich and Pierre Chazanoff to resemble an overturned boat, nodding to its riverside site. The studio has updated its polycarbonate facade "One of the goals in restoration is that the same people who come at the end say, 'Oh, it's the same!'

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Niagara Falls’ abandoned power station is set for a $200m conversion

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Despite this, it was designated a National Historic Site in 1983 due to its technological and historical significance as the first Canadian-owned hydroelectric facility at Niagara Falls, ensuring its survival – and now its revival. The development must also offer ‘a new guest experience that does not exist in Niagara nor Ontario today.’

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A4 Spotlight: The 2024 Doris Duke Historic Preservation Awards

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In 2007, to celebrate the people and projects that epitomize the value and benefit to the community that preserving the wonderful buildings of Newport County brings, the City of Newport and the Newport Restoration Foundation partnered to create the Dorris Duke Preservation Awards. Mr. Charles A. Watson Farm Watson Farm (ca.

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Fifteen landmark projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner David Chipperfield

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Photo by Ute Zscharnt BBC Scotland Headquarters, 2007, UK Located at a site in Glasgow 's Govan Graving Docks – an abandoned shipbuilding site on the River Clyde – Chipperfield's BBC Scotland Headquarters were built in 2007. The first floor is dedicated to retail spaces and a publicly accessible viewing deck.

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Architects "could be very important" to Africa's Great Green Wall says Elvis Paul Tangem

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Read: "Design professionals can make choices to prove that disasters are not natural" In 2007, the African Union launched the Great Green Wall initiative to be a unified, multi-state response to increasing desertification across the region, with 11 main national partners. "The The Sahel stretches across Africa just below the Sahara.

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Before and after photos reveal extent of Battersea Power Station redevelopment

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Now part of the shopping centre, the 1930s Turbine Hall A was a ruin in 2007. Control Room A pictured in 2007 and after the renovation. Alongside each of the turbine halls the control rooms, which are some of the most iconic spaces in the building, have been restored as part of the redevelopment.

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SPPARC transforms London townhouse into office with "honeycomb" roof

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The main challenge faced when developing the timber honeycomb design was the constrained site," SPAARC explained. "It Its cantilevered stone stairs were restored, along with coving mouldings and external windows and walls. On one side, it forms a lightwell for the basement. The photography is courtesy of SPPARC.

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