Archinect

APRIL 18, 2022

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. The original plans.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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.

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Hotel Designs

MARCH 5, 2025

The original ornate elements designed by architect Robush and Hunter in 1925 remain intact but refurbished with a modern colourway. The hotels exterior, much of which is the Illinois Buildings original architecture, is comprised of granite and limestone with Moderne bas relief panels and topped with gold-glazed terra cotta cornice.

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designboom

DECEMBER 19, 2024

the transformation by the UK-based architects balances modern standards of comfort and sustainability with respect for the site's historic character. The post rusty corten steel extension modernizes 1950s brick home in london appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

JANUARY 9, 2025

The proposal includes the renovation of the site, which was originally constructed in 1924 and served as the nation’s first modern factory. Located in Belgrade, the museum is situated within the historic Milan Vapa Paper Mill.

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Deezen

JANUARY 28, 2025

Readers were impressed by the restoration, with one describing it as "delicate, sensitive and restrained", while another praised the "lovely blend of the best of the existing with some sympathetic modern additions". The post Dezeen Debate features "delicate and restrained" restoration in Barcelona appeared first on Dezeen.

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designboom

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

the transformation by the UK-based architects balances modern standards of comfort and sustainability with respect for the site's historic character. The post rusty corten steel extension by fluid glass modernizes 1950s brick home in london appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Years from now, serious collectors of architectural magazines may search for that single issue of the 21st century magazine Dwell , absent a major spread of a house designed in the midcentury modern (MCM) manner or a restoration of a building from that era.

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designboom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The post JAJA architects builds modern home for families in need along denmark’s bagsværd lake appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. originally built as a summer villa in the early 1900s, JAJA architects' extension now supports children and families in need.

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Dwell

APRIL 15, 2025

Built in 1852 and redesigned by its owner-architect with a midcentury-modern aesthetic, this home is full of thoughtful details. With tree-lined streets, restored 19th-century brick row homes, and pocket parks, it feels like a peaceful retreat while only being a few blocks from the Inner Harbor, Federal Hill, and top restaurants."

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Roma Termini, one of the busiest stations in Europe with 200 million annual visitors and a symbol of modernity in the Italian capital, has undergone a strategic transformation that strengthens its role as a central hub for urban mobility and commerce. The Restoration of the View Toward the Servian Wall.

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Archinect

MARCH 7, 2023

When naming Chipperfield as the 2023 Pritzker laureate, the organizers singled out his Neues Museum restoration (Berlin, Germany, 2009) as demonstrating "Chipperfield’s discer.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The renovated building contains 75 modern apartments , along with wellness facilities and street-level retails. 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.

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Archinect

JANUARY 22, 2024

From their studio in the city’s Mission District, the studio operates along “a profoundly philosophical approach with a deep well of on-the-ground building experience to produce work that both sensitively integrates itself into the existing context, and that offers new opportunities for reflection, work, pause, restoration, and play.”

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ArchDaily

JUNE 13, 2023

Following Bo Bardi's decisive contributions, the buildings were restored and became the new home of the Museum of Popular Art and the Popular University. The ensemble drew the attention of Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi at her first visit in 1958, during which she spent some years working and teaching in the city.

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Archinect

AUGUST 2, 2024

The fight to save Marcel Breuer ’s former home on Cape Cod, the 1949 Wellfleet Cottage, has reached its conclusion after The Cape Cod Modern House Trust completed its purchase following a successful $1.4 ” The Modern House Trust's spokesperson told the outlet : “Work begins on the restoration immediately.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2025

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.

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ArchDaily

MAY 23, 2024

The client, a young couple, purchased the dilapidated property with the intention of restoring the existing building and converting it into a modern. Completed in 2021 in Croydon, Australia. Images by Tom Ferguson.

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The Architect's Newsletter

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The stream-straddling Casa sobre el Arroyo (House on the Stream) The post Restoration of Argentine architect Amancio Williams’s Casa sobre el Arroyo receives the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 18, 2024

"By using plug-in architecture, the design addresses contemporary needs within a heritage context, adding functional spaces that support modern artistic practices and community interaction," PAO principal James Shen told Dezeen.

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Deezen

JUNE 13, 2024

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.

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Deezen

JULY 22, 2024

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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Archinect

JANUARY 23, 2025

The museum's façade renovation incorporates undulating perforated aluminum panels, featuring horizontal lines and vertical elements that blend the old with the new while exuding a distinctly modern aesthetic. This new cultural landmark breathes fresh vitality into preserving and inheriting Haiyan's rich i.

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Deezen

JANUARY 29, 2025

Genoese architecture studio Caarpa has restored the Church of Nostra Signora della Costa in Levanto, Italy , installing a mezzanine to complement the original ornamentation. With a history predating its 14th-century consecration, the historic building was transformed by Caarpa into a versatile space for conferences, seminars and events.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The challenges of preserving and upkeeping mid-century modern homes mean many are at risk of demolition , conservation experts tell Dezeen as part of our mid-century modern series. Many mid-century modern homes are at risk of demolition. A number of notable mid-century modern homes have been razed recently.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Originally built in 1925, the studio aimed to improve its dark and heavily partitioned interiors to transform the space into a modern and functional home for its young owner. Sand-coloured flooring runs throughout the home and is chosen to reference the local beaches.

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Archinect

JULY 3, 2024

Aspects of the work will include creating a new entrance, improving logistics and circulation for the museum, and restoring the existing Van der Steur, Bodon, and Henket buildings, which are considered national monuments.

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Deezen

JANUARY 22, 2025

Original mosaic floors and decorative mouldings have been restored in this early 20th-century Barcelona apartment renovation by local practice Sigla Studio. These features, emblematic of the period, were meticulously preserved and restored". The photography is by Marta Vidal.

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Archinect

APRIL 8, 2024

Foster + Partners has been revealed as the architectural designers of a major new campus modernization project for the famed former CBS Television City in Los Angeles. At a cost of $1 billion, the firm is now under contract to deliver what will be the first all-electric studios in the city.

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ArchDaily

AUGUST 21, 2024

Often renowned for its architectural diversity, its built environment reflects both its colonial past and modern evolution. Image © Firefighter Montreal via Shutterstock Montreal , located along the Saint Laurent River in Southern Quebec , is Canada’s second-largest city.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2025

The final project on our list of the 25 most significant buildings of the 21st century is the restoration of the Grand Palais in Paris by Chatillon Architectes , bookending our series with two powerful stories of reuse and renewal. Our focus has always been to honour and restore the best of the building's past but not to do this blindly.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Jacoby Studios was nominated for "the beautiful execution in mixing repair and restoration with disciplined new-build", the jury said. The last winner of the RIBA International Prize was architect Kashef Chowdhury for his Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh. The winner of the award will be announced on 27 November.

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Deezen

AUGUST 15, 2024

Chatillon Architectes has renovated Grande Nef of the Île-des-Vannes Chatillon Architectes ' goal for the overhaul was to preserve and celebrate the original architecture of Grande Nef of the Île-des-Vannes while meeting modern energy standards. Restoration is creation, you have to create things, but in a special way, not in the usual way."

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Deezen

JULY 17, 2024

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.

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Architect on Tour

JANUARY 26, 2025

One event that has become a tradition for us is Modernism Week. After visiting Modernism Week so many times, it’s safe to say that Modernism Week is a one-of-a-kind event! Among the tours and lectures, our tips this year are the following: Survival Through Restoration: Neutras Legacy in Palm Springs What Was the Bauhaus?

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designboom

JULY 17, 2024

with the first phase of the renovation project, BEEF architekti restores a 300-year-old stone house. The post mallorca chicken farm revived with modern ‘sa taronja’ intervention by BEEF architekti appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

JANUARY 17, 2023

The project is a restoration of a barn originally built in the 1800s. The structure was reimagined as a modern, airy, multi-use space with the same modern aesthetic as the main home on the site, while still respecting its farmland history. The exterior is reclaimed wood from a variety of sources.

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