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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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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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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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Restoration of Saarinen-designed First Christian Church tower completed in Columbus, Indiana

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The Landmark Columbus Foundation has shared photos of Louis Joyner Architect 's completed tower restoration of the landmark First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, designed by Eero Saarinen and his father, Eliel , in 1942. The project took eight months to complete, wrapping up this past December.

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F.O.G. architecture restores timber structure of conserved historical building in beijing

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architecture restores timber structure of conserved historical building in beijing appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the construction wraps timber columns and glass partitions around an open courtyard exposing the original skeleton. The post F.O.G.

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Oulu City Council Grants Permission for Aalto’s Silos Restoration Project in Finland

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Courtesy of Skene Catling de la Peña Oulu City Council has approved the AALTOSIILO restoration proposal by Skene Catling de la Peña. The concrete structure will be restored and reimagined as a multi-media performance, exhibition space, and “Tar Bar.”

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dMFK Architects restores CFA Voysey's Arts and Crafts factory to its "former glory"

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Architecture studio dMFK Architects has restored and renovated the Voysey House office in Chiswick, London , which was originally designed as a wallpaper factory by architect CFA Voysey. This included replacing the non-original windows with steel reproductions of the original frames.