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UNESCO's restoration of Iraq's historic Al-Nouri mosque site has been placed on hold

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The UNESCO -led effort to restore the historic Al-Nouri Mosque in Mosul has come to a halt this week after recent discoveries and feedback from the community have prompted a change of direction from the cultural agency. Exterior elements like sun shading will be thrown out as well.

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SOM completes restoration of Lever House, a midcentury Manhattan office icon

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has announced the completion of a recent restoration project that’s meant to breathe new life into their historic Lever House design in Manhattan. Reed Hilderbrand has also contributed a comprehensive new landscape program for the building that connects the plaza area to third-floor terraces.

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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. And yet, now that the project is complete, most visitors will be completely unaware of the vast amount of exterior and interior restoration efforts that went into this project."

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Notre Dame Cathedral completes spire reconstruction ahead of 2024 reopening

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France had previously reversed plans for the restoration’s completion before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games prior to the death of project overseer General Jean-Louis Georgelin in August. Both outstanding elements are expected to be added later, along with contemporary stained glass windows.

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SOM completes restoration of New York's historic Lever House

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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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Restored Book Tower in Detroit features hospitality venues by Method Co

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Several restaurants and a hotel have opened within Detroit 's historic Book Tower as part of a years-long restoration project of the building undertaken by its developer and architecture studio ODA. The post Restored Book Tower in Detroit features hospitality venues by Method Co appeared first on Dezeen.

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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."