Deezen

JUNE 6, 2024

US architecture studio Quinn Evans has completed the restoration of Detroit's Michigan Central Station as part of a wider local development by American automotive brand Ford. The flooring and ceiling tile of the Grand Hall was cleaned, replaced and restored It served 4,000 train passengers a day before its closure in 1988.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2023

A mid-century house originally designed by British architect Trevor Dannatt has undergone a sensitive restoration by architecture studio Coppin Dockray in north London. It was barely insulated, the roof was failing," the studio's co-founder Sandra Coppin told Dezeen. Post-war buildings are notoriously flimsy and thermally volatile."

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Deezen

JULY 17, 2024

The courtyard was once an enclosed auditorium, but due to the 1980s fire, the roof was burned and never replaced, leaving it open to elements as it exists today. While stabilizing the building and making it appropriate for contemporary usage," she continued.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Topped by a standing seam zinc roof, the 4.5-metre-tall metre-tall porch is designed to echo the architecture of the existing building while acting as a contemporary counterpart. They were very keen to use the building in a more multi-functional way, to host more community-focused activities alongside worship," Puttick continued.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Today, food markets across the city are undergoing extensive restoration and upgrading work. The restoration efforts often focus on improving the public spaces surrounding the markets to enhance social activity. They are remarkable architectural marvels that enhance the shopping experience, blending history and contemporary city life.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2025

The final project on our list of the 25 most significant buildings of the 21st century is the restoration of the Grand Palais in Paris by Chatillon Architectes , bookending our series with two powerful stories of reuse and renewal. It is crowned by the largest glass roof in Europe.

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Deezen

JANUARY 16, 2025

A miniature gabled roof shelters the hotel's entrance These references can be seen not just in the hotel's dedicated Noh stage a timber skeleton made of yellow cedar and Kyoto cypress but also in the architecture of the hotel itself and the interiors of its 52 guest rooms designed by the late designer Yukio Hashimoto.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2024

London studio SPPARC has overhauled a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse in Fitzrovia to create a homely four-story office featuring a honeycomb-shaped roof. It is illuminated by an array of skylights set in a hexagonal roof structure resembling honeycomb. On one side, it forms a lightwell for the basement.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Local studio 5468796 Architecture has renovated an early 20th-century utilities building in Winnipeg , Canada, showcasing the industrial equipment while updating the structure for contemporary usage. 5468796 Architecture has added residential buildings to the site The station closed in 1986 and was slated for demolition.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Renovations and adaptive reuse continue to be key trends in contemporary architecture. Home to the world's largest collection of contemporary Nordic art, the museum occupies a huge former grain silo building. These are fronted by balconies incorporating a "natural curtain" of trailing plants, while the roof is a terrace lined by trees.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The book showcases 60 houses that exemplify the cutting edge of contemporary architecture from around the world, showcasing materials such as mass timber and technologies such as 3D printing. Precast insulated concrete panels were used in the construction, and the house has a green roof planted with wildflower meadow species.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Drawing together eight bathhouses across multiple continents, the following projects explore how to build restorative and tranquil spaces to unwind. The concrete consists of recycled content and provides a durable structural system integrated into the green roof assembly. The bathhouse was made to be the highlight.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The latest edition of Architizer: The Worlds Best Architecture a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe is now available. Here, bent bamboo poles form a sweeping, vaulted roof. Order your copy today. Order your copy today.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The roof was also renovated, with the roof edge raised slightly so that the newly installed solar panels appeared to be sunken into the roof. Smart storage solutions such as built-in closets and roof beam spaces add to the comfortable feel of the house. The primary bedroom also features an outdoor shower terrace.

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Hotel Designs

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Located just steps from the charming Piazza della Scala, Casa Brera is the result of the careful restoration of a historic building to bring a blend of Milanese heritage and cosmopolitan flair under the direction of designer Patricia Urquiola.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 4, 2024

UK studio Cowper Griffith Architects has combined the medieval fabric of the 14th-century Calverley Old Hall in West Yorkshire, England , with contemporary additions to create a holiday home for the Landmark Trust charity. The post Cowper Griffith Architects creates contemporary holiday home in medieval hall appeared first on Dezeen.

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Architizer

AUGUST 9, 2023

These “roof walks” are a response to unique environmental, social and urban conditions. Drawn from a diverse range of scales and programs, the following roof walks reimagine the roof plane in projects both large and small. Above the double height multi-media room, the roof structure touches down on the sunken garden.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Czech practice Studio Acht has renovated the 19th-century provostry at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague , combining careful restoration with modern interventions. The western extension overlooks the courtyard through a large ribbon window, and the eastern extension through a row of tall, narrow windows.

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Deezen

AUGUST 27, 2023

The renovations below see many of these original features retained and restored, supplemented with contemporary additions such as double-height ceilings and furniture by the likes of Tadao Ando and Mario Bellini. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The architectural bureau known for its work on Garage contemporary art museum, will restore a famous modernist building in Uzbek capital. The restoration is being backed by the Uzbekistan’s Art and Culture Development Foundation. GRACE studio is set to reconstruct an important cultural center in Tashkent.

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The Spaces

MARCH 21, 2022

The Fundació – now boasting a community of hundreds of international volunteers – is a beacon of new cultural life for Mahon; a team continually dedicated to restoring and promoting the island’s landscape, architecture and heritage. Photography: Louise Long . Each offers its own interpretation of this unique setting. Photography: Louise Long.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2022

A historical annex and a house built in 1930 were both converted into additional accommodation, while an old stone barn was preserved and restored to provide a flexible activity space and storage. Living areas in each apartment feature ceilings that follow the pitch of the roof to add height to these spaces.

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Architonic

APRIL 17, 2022

The project, completed in early 2021, effortlessly merges contemporary architecture with nature, making the most of its context, while respecting its green surroundings. Taking its cues from the landscape around it, Villa Apollon by Block722 sits on the southern edge of the Greek island of Lefkada.

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Architizer

MAY 23, 2022

Characteristics of this dwelling are sloping roofs, a three-storied layout and internal wooden walls. As wealthy foreigners and locals continue to build, we see a new wave of contemporary designs within the traditional Basque landscape. The home is a relaxed, spacious contemporary living environment.

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Deezen

JUNE 10, 2024

Called The Mineless Heritage Restoration Project and completed in 2023, the scheme involved the adaptation of a series of logistical structures including offices, dormitories and a bathhouse that once supported the Chungyi Coal Mine.

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Dwell

JANUARY 23, 2023

Project Details: Location: Nieby, Germany Architect: Studio Marshall Blecher and Jan Henrik Jansen Arkitekter Photographer: Jose Campos / @ josecamposphotographer From the Architect: " The thatch-roofed brick cottage was originally built by tenant farmers or crofters from a nearby estate in the late 1800s.

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Architizer

JULY 4, 2022

The SeaGlass Carousel was designed as a collaboration to create a distinctly contemporary ecologically themed environment for this public space. Comprised of transparent operable glass panels and a transparent ETFE roof, SLADE’s enclosure is a jewel-like structure.

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Archinect

MARCH 21, 2022

Squire and Partners’ consented designs create a new Education and Community Centre adjacent to Brixton Windmill for Lambeth Council and Friends of Windmill Gardens (FoWG), the charity who manages the restored Grade II* listed windmill.

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designboom

OCTOBER 19, 2022

a contemporary glass volume is nestled beneath the restored thatched roof. The post thatched brick ‘nieby crofters cottage’ transformed with modern glass renovation appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

MARCH 21, 2024

Rooted in English, Dutch and German colonial styles, there are some variations, but the farmhouses , barns, and other structures in the region are characterised by clapboard or stone siding, small windows due to the scarcity of glass and steeply pitched roofs in the face of heavy snowfall.

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The Spaces

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Sessions Arts Club, Clerkenwell Courtesy of the Session Arts Club The interiors of this former courthouse are as romantic as they come, with peeling paint and raw plaster walls, restored mouldings and patinaed floors adding to the sense of faded grandeur inside the restaurant, and walls a revolving gallery of contemporary art.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 26, 2023

contemporary gallery. Malik Architecture restored the 144-year old ice factory Named IF.BE – Ice Factory Ballard Estate, the gallery was designed around a central courtyard. Malik Architecture restored the 144-year old ice factory Named IF.BE – Ice Factory Ballard Estate, the gallery was designed around a central courtyard.

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Clark Richardson | Architect & Sustainability

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The design features a restored formal living area with a grand piano, sunken seating, and a light-filled library, paired with a private northern addition that includes the media room, dining area, and kitchen. The addition boasts a beamless vaulted ceiling, hemlock wood cladding, and a striking floor-to-ceiling glass wall.

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Dwell

APRIL 27, 2023

"The original sandstone building was restored using traditional methods including internal lime render and repair of tuck pointing. Celebrating collaboration and colors, the result is a dynamic heritage restoration with contemporary addition."

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Portuguese studio Risco has renovated the Beato Convent Events Centre, an events space housed within a former convent in Lisbon , sensitively updating its existing fabric and adding a series of contemporary additions. Whenever the intervention had a larger scale, we opted for a contemporary look."

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Deezen

MAY 25, 2023

Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration and conversion of a power plant on a decontaminated industrial site along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. The combination of refurbished steel and exposed brick walls layered with graffiti continues throughout the interiors of the restored structure.

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The Spaces

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This incredible French estate , designed by architect Patrick Bouchain in Saône-et-Loire, has restored rustic farm buildings, a Michelin-star restaurant and a trio of striking contemporary gîtes that look like upturned boats. They cantilever over the valley, offering dramatic views through floor-to-ceiling glass walls.

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