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Taliesin's $1.1 million restored Hillside Theater debuts in Wisconsin

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Taliesin Preservation’s restoration of the Hillside Theater at Frank Lloyd Wright ’s former estate in Spring Green, Wisconsin, has been completed following a five-year and $1.1 million transformation effort for The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

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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. The Sunni religio.

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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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InterContinental Indianapolis opens following $120 million restoration

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With the addition of an entire rooftop floor as part of the $120 million restoration, the now 11-storey hotel includes the preserved historic entry with facets of the buildings lavishly detailed craftsmanship of the past, seamlessly blending in with a new contemporary canopy to welcome guests in the most elevated manner.

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BVN tops Sydney's brutalist Sirius building with copper-pod extensions

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The original facade was retained and restored with a new extension distinguished from the original concrete exterior with copper cladding that nods to its modular design. Warm tones of timber, stone, and metals are used throughout the apartments, contrasting the building's rough exterior.

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Chicago preservationists just saved two landmark early skyscrapers from the GSA wrecking ball

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"We’re hoping the remaining $45 million of this demolition earmark could be invested in the terra cotta and the exterior cladding and roof structures, along with the windows," Preservation Chicago’s executive director Ward Miller told the outlet. "I

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Le Louxor cinema in Paris is "an art deco fantasy straight out of Egypt"

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Le Louxor is an art deco cinema with decorations referencing ancient Egypt A rare survivor among pre-war cinemas in France, it is adorned with ancient Egyptian motifs on both its interior and granite exterior, which were restored to full art deco splendour in 2013. Colourful patterns and mosaics animate its facades.

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