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Powerhouse Sydney Reveals Heritage Restoration Plans for Australia’s Largest Museum Institution

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Image © DBJ Powerhouse, Australia ’s largest museum institution dedicated to applied arts design, and technology, has revealed the plans for a comprehensive restoration of its three sites located in Sydney , Australia, in addition to the opening of a new site in Parramatta in Western Sydney in 2025.

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Restore to Impact: Projects Selected for the Regeneration Contest of an Industrial Site in Parma

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Image © Yifan and Jingwen Which are the criteria for the regeneration of a former industrial site? In this context, it has defined its guiding principles to evaluate the concepts submitted by April 30th.

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UNESCO's restoration of Iraq's historic Al-Nouri mosque site has been placed on hold

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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.

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Stern & Bucek Architects restores the Eldorado Ballroom, a Black cultural site in Houston’s Third Ward

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For three decades, the art moderne–style Eldorado Ballroom sat on the corner of Dowling Street—now Emancipation Avenue—and Elgin Street in Houston as a prominent Black music venue during the Jim The post Stern & Bucek Architects restores the Eldorado Ballroom, a Black cultural site in Houston’s Third Ward appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper. (..)

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Kauh restores historic Spanish park to be a "palimpsest of its evolution"

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Spanish architecture practice Kauh has completed the renovation of La Hoya Park in the historical centre of Almería, restoring a series of stepped, dry stone terraces on the site of a 13th-century town. For the planting, protected species found on the site were maintained and accompanied by new fruit and mulberry trees.

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z’scape restores hotel site in china with amphitheater + lush, native garden

designboom

The post z’scape restores hotel site in china with amphitheater + lush, native garden appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the low-maintenance and minimally invasive design celebrates nature's effortless and rhythmic cycles.

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The 11 most threatened modern sites across the U.S.

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In response to the recent surprise demolition of Marcel Breuer’s Geller I house on Long Island, modernist conservation group Docomomo US has released its first-ever list of the 11 most threatened modern sites in the United States.

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