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Renovations and adaptive reuse continue to be key trends in contemporary architecture. Featuring a series of colourful additions, including playful rooftop extensions and a new exterior staircase, the now-combined blocks accommodate shops on the ground floor and apartments upstairs.
The project to renovate the historic UT Tower (aka the 'Main Building') back to its original 1937 appearance will be completed by the end of summer 2027. Restoration of its exterior will begin next month. Stern Architects (RAMSA) has signed on to a new higher education project for the University of Texas at Austin.
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A $36 million restoration of Eero Saarinen ’s 1964 corporate headquarters for CBS in Manhattan has been announced by New York-based Harbor Group International, LLC (HGI) ahead of the project’s expected completion early this fall.
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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."
The neo-gothic exterior of the rectory was restored to showcase where interventions have been made GRT Architects was enlisted to convert the derelict four-storey structure, and took the opportunity to rethink the spatial layout to suit the change of use. The photography is by Jason Schmidt.
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Architecture studio Loader Monteith has renovated a modernist house in the Scottish Borders that was damaged in a fire, using a light touch to reinstate its original design by architect Peter Womersley. Loader Monteith has renovated a modernist house in the Scottish Borders. metre grid.
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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. Quinn Evans has completed a six-year renovation of a Detroit train station. Quinn Evans has completed a six-year renovation of a Detroit train station.
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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. This renovation reactivates Lever House for the 21st century," said SOM partner Chris Cooper.
Before: Exterior Before: The homes exterior, with neglected, overgrown landscaping, left much to be desired. Courtesy of Best Practice Architecture After: Exterior Sitting jauntily on its block, this renovated residence in Seattles Mount Baker neighborhood retains the original homes footprint.
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At night, embedded strip lighting outlines the churchs form, emphasizing the contrast between its restored elements and new construction. A steel-wood skeleton rises above the ruins, its open structure revealing the buildings evolution while shaping a quiet, solemn atmosphere.
Local studio Heryco has completed a renovation of a pink apartment building with arches influenced by the form of aqueducts in the city of Querétaro, México. The arched motif continues to the interior courtyard with curved portals and exterior window frames. Globe-shaped lighting is suspended in the office.
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US studio Ome Dezin has renovated a large mid-century home in Brentwood, California , using a tonal colour palette and maximising the lush hillside views. This one did not disappoint — it had the typical Quincy atrium-like living space centered across from the exterior which includes a 40-foot (12-metre) waterfall."
The founder of Diandra Maselli Architect acquired the property a week before the Covid-19 pandemic caused global lockdowns, and faced an uphill battle during the renovation of the historic structure. To conceal the laundry room from the kitchen, a nine-foot-tall (2.7
The co-founder of California studio Electric Bowery has renovated a redwood-clad house in Big Sur for her family, preserving its iconic features and adding custom furniture. Also as part of the scope, a trailer on the property was restored and renovated for use as additional guest accommodation and an office for remote work.
Architecture studio GMP Architekten has completed the renovation of the post-war Hyparschale hall in Magdeburg, Germany. GMP Architekten renovated the building so that it could reopen as a multifunctional venue for events and exhibitions – officially opening last month. The photography is by Marcus Bredt unless otherwise stated.
Montreal design-build studio Atelier L'Abri has overhauled a triplex residence in the city's Petit Laurier neighbourhood, using a stark white palette inside to contrast the building's burgundy exterior. The 3,000-square-foot (280-square-metre) Triplex Fabre project was designed to accommodate two generations of the same family.
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Prague studio Byró Architekti has renovated a 19th-century house in the Czech town of Kutná Hora, adding unexpected openings and colourful joinery that create a playful contrast with the original interior. While the building's exterior is decorated modestly to fit into the streetscape, a more expressive colour palette is applied internally.
Photo by Ivo Tavares Studio After they purchased the farmhouse, they turned to Moura and his firm, Luppa Architects , to renovate it. Before: Rear Facade Before: Prior to the restoration, there was no interior connection between the two floors of the main unitonly this exterior staircase on the side of the house.
Renderings show each station's exteriors and interiors capped by ripped volumes of metallic bronze or matte white, integrated with louvred wood and stone walls, heavy columns, and pergola-style roofs hanging over large entrances. The station design reflects the sustainable ethos of the wider project."
Completed in 2012, the 360-metre-long building comprises a series of rectangular volumes that transition from glazed to brushed aluminium exteriors and feature subtle curves.
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I grew up doing renovations with my dad, since I was a teenager, well before architecture school," says Aleksandra, who is an architect and principal of the Vancouver firm Hidden Studio Architecture & Design. "I Before: Front Exterior Before: Architect Aleksandra Popovska and her husband, Daniel Penn, bought this 1912 Edwardian in 2020.
Subscribe to our Awards Newsletter to receive updates about Public Voting, and stay tuned for winners announcements later this spring. Folks, today I’m here to tell you that “adaptive reuse” and “renovation” are not interchangeable terms and the apparent confusion (or conflation) between the two matters.
Architecture firm SOM is renovating the glass Lever House skyscraper that it designed in New York in an effort to preserve the modernist office building's "very important legacy". SOM is renovating the Lever House skyscraper that it designed in New York. The renovation aims to preserve the skyscraper's "very important legacy".
Atak Architekti restored and extended a former rectory Looking to maintain the character of the existing building, its deep foundations were used to carve out a semi-recessed basement level, housing reading rooms and spaces to be used by local clubs. Photography is by Tomáš Souček.
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