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World Cities Day 2024: Transforming Urban Futures Through Preservation, Innovation, and Resilience

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Projects like the extensive renovations of Barcelona's La Rambla and the preservation efforts around Chicago's historic skyscrapers highlight preservation of urban heritage, while initiatives in Venice and Los Angeles respond to overtourism and housing pressures, balancing livability with growth.

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Liu Jiakun: Get to Know the 2025 Pritzker Winner's Work

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Culture The Renovation of Tianbao Cave District of Erlang Town. He just follows what the site, natural landscape, pre-existing urban frame, and citizen needs might require. Image Arch-Exist The 2025 Pritzker Prize has been awarded this year to Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun. Read more

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BarlisWedlick opens renovated Hamptons house to the shoreline

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New York-based studio BarlisWedlick has renovated and expanded a Southampton house to create multigenerational living spaces that open up to the seaside. The house, which was originally constructed in the 1980s, overlooks Peconic Bay in New York.

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Angular high-rises to surround OMA's Tirana football stadium renovation

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Dutch studio OMA has unveiled plans to renovate the Selman Strmasi Stadium in Tirana and transform the surrounding area with tilted, geometric high-rise buildings. The post Angular high-rises to surround OMA's Tirana football stadium renovation appeared first on Dezeen. The images are courtesy of OMA.

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LVArchitectes and erwan bouroullec revive brick barn anchored in burgundy’s landscape

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Erwan Bouroullec and LVA Architects complete farm Renovation Designer Erwan Bouroullec collaborated with LVA Architects, led by Guillaume Le Dévéhat and Charlotte Vuarnesson, to transform an old farm in Burgundy, France, into a versatile, enduring space.

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Inside the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s new $75 million expansion

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Designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners , with landscape architecture by Studio-MLA and exhibition spaces by Studio Joseph , the NHM Commons comprises approximately 75,000 square feet of renovated and newly constructed space.

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Dubbeldam Architecture + Design sculpts "fluid contours" through renovated Toronto home

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A staircase formed from sinuous curves connects the levels of this Victorian home that Toronto studio Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has renovated for a ceramicist. To update the 130-year-old Flow House in Toronto, Dubbeldam Architecture + Design extended the building at the rear and on top to add more space for the family.