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Social Rehabilitation: Exploring Community Involvement in Architectural Restoration

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Image © Michele Alfieri/Shutterstock Rehabilitation involves repairing , renovating, altering, or reconstructing any building or structure. It addresses the need to significantly improve a building's failing features, primarily through strengthening or replacing elements to restore the structure's optimal performance.

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Fentress' Norwegian Embassy restoration is a testament to the country's unique design heritage

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Fentress Architects ’ AIA chapter award-winning Chancery restoration project for the Embassy of Norway has officially opened to the public, representing a first for the 42-year-old Denver-based firm. Situated between the official Vice Presidential Residence and National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.’s

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Studio Gang revitalizes Pavilion structure at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo

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Studio Gang ’s restoration of the popular Pavilion structure at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago is now complete.

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University of Cambridge Unveils Restoration Plans for Historic Stirling Building in the United Kingdom

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Restoration of Stirling Building | University of Cambridge. Image Courtesy of BPD The University of Cambridge , in collaboration with BPD, has just unveiled plans to restore and rejuvenate the Grade II* listed History Faculty Building designed by James Stirling.

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Drexel University researchers develop AI-guided robotic structural inspection system

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Researchers based at the Drexel University College of Engineering have devised a new method for performing structural safety inspections using autonomous robots aided by machine learning technology.

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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 restored Brick House (whose work was overseen by the National Trust ’s Mark Stoner) reopens to the public this Thursday, May 2nd. Neither was conceived without the other.

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Glasgow School of Art enters Phase 2 of its Mackintosh Building restoration

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Shortly following a devastating fire that caused widespread damage to the historic structure in June of 2018, work began to dismantle parts of the building that were at risk of sudden collapse. At the time of the blaze, the Mackintosh Building had been undergoing extensive restoration due to an earlier fire that damaged the site in 2014.