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Preservation
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Snider House Bridges Past and Present
With the addition of an undulating glass facade, the heritage home reflects modern sensibilities while preserving history.
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Viewpoints
Altadena’s Rebuild Begins with Listening
Led by SoCal NOMA, the Altadena Rebuild Coalition is guiding fire-impacted residents through recovery by prioritizing empathy, coordination, and community.
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Profiles
Salima Naji’s Quest to Preserve Culture Through Architecture
Salima Naji’s Quest to Preserve Culture Through Architecture. Across Morocco, the architect and anthropologist is rebuilding ancient buildings so that they may endure for generations to come.
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Is Paris’s Olympics Architecture Right-Sized for our Times?
With its tight environmental targets, reuse of historic landmarks, and adaptable housing, Paris 2024 aims to make hosting the Olympics thrifty and useful to the city.
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Viewpoints
An HBCU’s Historic Preservation Program Starts with Its Own Campus
Uncovering history from Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement, students at Tuskegee University take a hands-on role in preserving history on campus and beyond.
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Viewpoints
Preservationists Are Investigating the Historical Significance of SOM’s Westinghouse Research Center
Skidmore Owings & Merrill's former Westinghouse Research and Development Center near Pittsburgh is at risk for complete demolition. Can this important example of postwar corporate architecture be saved?
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Projects
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Moves into a Restored Movie Palace
Led by architects Kahler Slater, the conversion of Milwaukee’s Warner Grand Theatre was years in the making, requiring a suite of upgrades and restoration work.
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Projects
After Years of Renovation, One Prospect Park West is Set to Open its Doors
The conversion of One Prospect Park West into residential apartments entailed a comprehensive facade restoration and gut renovation.
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Projects
The Manchester Jewish Museum Celebrates Identity and Commonality
With a focus on guest experience, Citizens Design Bureau's addition and renovation elevates the museum’s ethos.
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Projects
The Winding Saga of the Restoration of the Narkomfin, an Icon of Soviet Constructivism
The building in central Moscow, which pioneered an experimental communitarian lifestyle but had fallen into severe disrepair, has been restored courtesy of its mastermind’s architect offspring.
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Projects
A Film School in Poland Is Built Around a Historic Home
In a bid to save the 19th-century brick tenement, the architects of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School embedded the former's façade into the latter.
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Schoolhouse Revival: A New Hotel in an Old School Frames a Scenic Park in Washington
Portland, Oregon–based firms Waechter Architecture and Blossom teamed up to create a boutique hotel within a 19th-century building.
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Projects
Michaelis Boyd Rehabs a Sumptuous Hotel in French Wine Country
The London design firm excavated the original detailing and long-obscured layout of the regal structure, which was originally a residence.
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Viewpoints
“Southern Exposure” Uncovers the Proud Architectural Legacy of Chicago’s South Side
In his new book, the journalist and photographer Lee Bey directs readers to some of Chicago's greatest architectural treasures, nearly all of them hiding in plain sight.
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Viewpoints
For a Time, Josep Lluís Sert’s Brawny Buildings Defined Modern Boston
Through his campus work, Sert left an incredible built legacy on the Boston area. But his building have taken some getting used to.
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Products
The Paris Researcher Pioneering a New Way to Recycle Building Materials
Anna Saint Pierre's Granito project is harvesting the ingredients for new architectural building blocks from demolished structures.
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Projects
Barbara Bestor Rehabs an Unfinished Masterpiece by John Lautner
The Silvertop House was begun in 1956 but never completed to Lautner's original plans; Bestor consulted archives at the Getty to design a sensitive 21st-century extrapolation of his vision.
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Viewpoints
Design Cities 2019: Fukuoka, Japan
After a three-year renovation, the Fukuoka Art Museum reflects the coastal city’s international links, both past and present.
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Projects
Chain Mail Now Protects Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Renowned Hill House
London studio Carmody Groarke designed a steel chain mail enclosure—with no less than 29,000 square feet of mail—that shields the Arts & Crafts masterpiece from water damage.
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Projects
After a Devastating Blaze, London’s Battersea Arts Centre Makes a Dramatic Comeback
London-based firm Haworth Tompkins has given the 19th century performing arts hall a sensitive, yet triumphant, new lease on life after a 2015 fire.