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'A symbol of reinvention': Michelin opens renovated new headquarters in France

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A recently-inaugurated renovation project for Michelin’s corporate headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand, France, has given a new identity to the 130-year-old legacy brand that was “in need of a new setting to project into the future,” according to President Florent Menegaux.

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Harvard GSD details Gund Hall renovations

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Harvard’s Graduate School of Design has unveiled plans for a slate of renovations that will culminate next year and are aimed at improving the user experience for students and faculty at 51-year-old Gund Hall in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Glazed extensions flank Montreal’s historic Maisonneuve Library following major EVOQ renovation

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Meanwhile, anchoring elements of the interior such as the piano nobile’s marble staircase and its two imposing stained-glass features were repaired. ” The building’s stone facades and oversized doors were restored, as were original plaster moldings, wood paneling, and mosaic floors.

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House With Glass Walls / fala

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© Ivo Tavares Studio architects: fala Location: Porto, Portugal Project Year: 2021 Photographs: Ivo Tavares Studio Photographs: Giulietta Margot Photographs: Courtesy of fala Area: 750.0 m2 Read more »

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LMN completes overhaul of Buxton Center to connect with history and ecology of Pacific Northwest’s Bainbridge Island

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LMN Architects has completed an extensive renovation and expansion of the Buxton Center for Bainbridge Performing Arts on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Above, a wave-form roof and ceiling plane displays an exposed wood structure, tying the new program spaces together to give the building a clear identity.

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la base studio designs ‘casa mendoza’ as a glass box in a private garden

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casa mendoza' is a renovated home by la base studio in buenos aires, shaped as a glass box wrapped in a timber screen. The post la base studio designs ‘casa mendoza’ as a glass box in a private garden appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Explore photos of OMA and Cooper Robertson's newly opened Buffalo AKG Art Museum expansion

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The culmination of more than three years of construction yielded the renovation of two existing structures and the addition of a new glass-canopied Jeffrey E. Overall, the renovations add an additional 50,000-square-feet of exhibition space, five studio classrooms, a restaurant, and 350-seat auditorium.

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