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Mark Jeavons and Ohlo Studio restore 1970s home in Australia

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Australian architect Mark Jeavons worked with interior design practice Ohlo Studio to restore Tomich House, a heritage-listed 1970s house in City Beach, Perth. One of the key changes made was reworking the layout to restore this original flow, while also making the house more functional for modern living," he added.

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SOM Completes Restoration of New York’s Lever House, Seven Decades After Originally Designing It

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© Lucas Blair Simpson © SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has completed the restoration works for Lever House, one of New York’s Modernist landmarks. The building was completed in 1952, following SOM’s design. Read more »

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Safa House Restoration / Torab Home

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In the historic district of Yazd City, the Safa House, situated in the Amir Chakhmaq neighborhood, was assigned to the Torab Home Company as a. Completed in 2020 in Yazd, Iran. Images by Mina Abouei.

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Christopher Hawthorne previews the restoration of Philip Johnson's Brick House ahead of May reopening

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The original paired structures, said Kirsten Reoch, who was named executive director of the Glass House campus last summer, “are two parts of a whole. ” The Glass House is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with a special Paper Log House installation from Shigeru Ban and other public programs through the end of December.

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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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Home owned by late Sea Ranch architect George Homsey lists for $2.45 million

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They say: "The house is in very original condition and now requires a custodian who is sensitive to the building's architectural importance and to the Homsey family's wishes that it may be carefully restored and preserved for the enjoyment of future generations." Homsey passed away at the age of 93 in April of 2019.

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Iraq's Mosul Cultural Museum partially reopens following yearslong restoration

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Less than a decade later, the partially restored museum has restarted its activities once again. It joins a slate of other important restoration projects in the city, led by the somewhat controversial UNESCO-backed reconstructions of Al-Nouri Mosque , Our Lady of the Hour Church, and some 124 historic houses.