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Foster + Partners "restores the logic" of Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco

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UK studio Foster + Partners has renovated the modernist Transamerica Pyramid skyscraper in San Francisco , USA, restoring elements from the original design and linking it to a redesigned adjacent park. The new masterplan restores the logic of Pereira's plan, reasserting its clarity and revitalising the ground plane."

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Chatillon Architectes restores 1970s sports complex in Paris

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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!' Restoration is creation, you have to create things, but in a special way, not in the usual way." So you have to make a compromise, or find a new solution," Chatillon continued.

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen transforms cement factory into West Bund Art Center

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Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has adaptively reused a domed cement factory in Shanghai , China, to create a performing arts and sports venue. From the very start, our focus was on restoring the dome structure and, in a way, trying to do as little to it as possible." The photography is by Tian Fangfang.

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Studio Libeskind set to add angular extension to Antwerp art deco tower

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Studio Libeskind plans to introduce cultural facilities and a rooftop viewpoint to the iconic, 90-year-old high-rise, designed in the art deco style by Belgian architect Jan Van Hoenacker. Tower will become "public space for art". Today we are transforming the entire complex into a public space for art.".

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Why are so many unusual skyscrapers being built in Tirana?

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I think the brief is much more to produce a piece of art or a sculpture, or anything that is starting more from storytelling, than from a structural approach or an aesthetics approach." I think it's a very clear idea, which is to make a city that is really a world city," said Boeri, who was commissioned to develop the Tirana 2030 masterplan.

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Living in a Post-Iconic World: Architecture in the Age of Localized Design

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The project is one of the largest urban parks in Europe, massively contributing to the Greek capital’s ecological restoration. Foster & Partners were responsible for designing the primary masterplan of the project, while the design firm Sasaki was appointed to redesign the metropolitan park. A year later, the Battery Park (1.2

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Hugh Broughton Architects transforms Sheerness Dockyard Church into community hub

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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. Located in a prominent position in the port town of Sheerness in north Kent, the church is a key part of an 18th-century masterplan by Scottish civil engineer John Rennie.