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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House annexe, the Brick House, has been restored and reopened following a 15-year closure in Connecticut. Architect Mark Stoner has led the restoration of Philip Johnson's Brick House It follows the building's closure in 2008 after the structure suffered ongoing "water intrusion" due to its sloping site.
By incorporating recycling practices , recovery, restoration, and/or the reuse of demolition materials , resource efficiency along with the reduction of energy consumption makes it feasible to experiment with techniques, applications, and new materials that honor the memory of spaces while also bringing new life to both interiors and exteriors.
TBo has renovated a townhouse in Philadelphia originally designed by IM Pei "Pei used an uncomplicated and repetitive palette of materials for the townhouses brick and concrete on the exterior and oak ooring, oak casework, brick and blackened steel on the interior," said TBo.
wrapped around a restored mill, the wine cellar optimizes efficiency while following a gravity-based layout. The post mix of local sands crafts wine storehouse’s lime plaster exterior by carmen maurice in france appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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. 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.
The Hillside Theatre by Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin has reopened following an extensive five-year restoration that addressed "significant structural and functional challenges". Frank Lloyd Wright's Hillside Theatre has been restored following a five-year renovation. Above photo is by Tim Long.
Image: courtesy of Google After restoring the original three floors remaining from its peak usage in the 1930s, the design team created a welcoming space defined by an exterior cut facade detailed on its northern side with reused rail beds that had been leftovers and are kept semi-exposed to create a visible linkage between past and present.
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.
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 project focused on restoring as many of High Sunderland's original features as possible, while carefully introducing environmentally friendly systems that meet the latest sustainability criteria. The renovation restores Womersley's original design following a fire. metre grid. M&E consultant: Harley Haddow.
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."
Trahan Architects ' work on the interior is the latest upgrade since the studio was engaged on the Superdome restoration in 2005, after it was damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Other restorations of iconic buildings include Foster + Partners' interior overhaul of the Transamerica Pyramid skyscraper in San Francisco.
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.
The project is a restoration of a barn originally built in the 1800s. The exterior is reclaimed wood from a variety of sources. Found in a state of ruin, the only salvageable part was about half of the original timber frame.
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.
Colleen Healey Architecture has restored and expanded an early 20th-century carriage house on an unusual lot in Maryland by placing black stucco and colourful panels on the facade. Colleen Healey has restored and expanded a carriage house in Maryland. Exterior walls are clad in dark stucco, clapboard siding and white-painted panels.
It is finished with clay tiles on the exterior and faceted, slatted wood ceilings above the internal spaces. Around this central structure are the restored porcelain workshops, of which the existing brick and timber structures have been restored and extended by PAO with a series of prefabricated cuboid modules, staircases and walkways.
The team sought to leave some elements "seemingly untouched" Led by EverGreene Architectural Arts , preservation efforts throughout the building included restoration of the central, recessed rose window, salvaging existing doors and windows, repairs to masonry and plaster and "thoroughly" cleaning interior spaces.
Glossy blue and brown tiles intended to evoke mineral veins cover the exterior of this mining museum in Yixing City, China, completed by Atelier XK. Called Huanglong Mountain Zisha Mineral Source Museum, the 2,435-square-metre building is located on the remains of the Zisha Mine, which operated on Huanglong Mountain from 1972 until 1992.
The 19th-century landmark structure between the Champs-lyses and the Seine was restored by French studio Chatillon Architectes ahead of the games. It's not only the restoration of a significant landmark, but also demonstrates the Olympics' increased focus on reuse with just one new permanent venue built for this games."
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.
The detailed renovation includes all new windows (fitted into restored Goodman window frames), new flooring, custom millwork, molding, trim, new doors, and solid ash cabinetry in the fully renovated bathrooms. A custom mud/storage area was created in the reconfigured entrance.
The design updates and expands interior and exterior spaces including an expanded kitchen, a new screened porch, a new entry and restored entry rotunda, updated living room and family room, as well as updates to all interior and exterior finishes.
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 post Ome Dezin restores 1960s California residence by A Quincy Jones appeared first on Dezeen. California has no shortage of mid-century properties in need of revamping.
The refurbishment was driven by a concept of opening up and stripping back both its interior and exterior, revealing the original facade and creating space for a large patio and porch between the home and the neighbouring building. The post Funcionable restores and updates historic home in Spain appeared first on Dezeen.
Italian designer Andrea Rosso has updated the interiors and restored historic details at the art deco Pelican Hotel, which was recently given a day of commeration by the City of Miami Beach. Other recent restoration projects in the Miami area include a hotel designed by Studio Collective a The Moore in the Miami Design District.
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.
New York-based GRT Architects has completed a mixed-use complex in Jersey City, which involved restoring three brick warehouses and adding four new levels. The foot-thick existing brick walls were also insulated from the interior and waterproofed from the exterior.
Photo by Taiwan-Reyhanli Centre for World Citizens The winning Taiwan-Reyhanli Centre was up against the other 14 category winners that included a spherical dome extension using cross-laminated timber in Stockholm, an office building with exposed timber frame in Paris and a restored fortress using timber in Turkey.
Open-air egress transforms nondescript interior corridors into vibrant exterior passageways," said the studio. Other renovations of industrial buildings include Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron' restoration and conversion of a power plant on an industrial site along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.
the farmhouses historical exterior is preserved, while a new formal and material language is introduced within the interior. The post grat studios rural biaix house in barcelona reintroduces traditional catalan lime mortar appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
The landscape design developed by PLANT Architect for University of Toronto Mississauga accompanies interior and exterior renovations to the William G. Davis Meeting Place, the first academic building encountered upon arrival at UTM.
Part of a larger initiative to rehabilitate the Seattle waterfront that began with a restoration to the city's seawall in 2017, this recently completed stage includes the Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion by LMN Architects and the Overlook Walk by Field Operations.
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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.
Before: Front Exterior Before: Architect Aleksandra Popovska and her husband, Daniel Penn, bought this 1912 Edwardian in 2020. After: Front Exterior Aleksandra and Daniel removed the gray stucco, which revealed that the original lap siding underneath was rotting. No one else was interested," recalls Aleksandra.
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