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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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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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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. 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.

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Google NYC's new adaptive-reuse HQ design by Gensler and COOKFOX opens at Hudson Square

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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.

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mix of local sands crafts wine storehouse’s lime plaster exterior by carmen maurice in france

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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.

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