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Soba restaurant Kawamichiya takes over century-old townhouse in Kyoto

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Japanese studios Td-Atelier and Endo Shorijo Design have transformed a townhouse in Kyoto into a noodle restaurant that combines traditional residential details with modern geometric interventions. The restaurant is set in a converted townhouse in Kyoto Tada studied at Osaka University before founding his studio in 2006.

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Architecture is Awesome: #34 Adaptive Reuse

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The Tate Modern, an example of adaptive reuse (photo by MasterOfHisOwnDomain, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. Since its opening in 2009, the High Line has become a popular and well-used city icon.

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Fifteen landmark projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner David Chipperfield

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Museum of Modern Literature, 2007, Germany In 2007, David Chipperfield Architects won the RIBA Stirling Prize for the Museum of Modern Literature at Marbach am Neckar in Germany. Opened in 2009, it sits at the border of Barcelona and l'Hospitalet to unify their government's legal departments in one place.

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Places in Time I

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Detroit Modern: 1935–1985 by Peter Forguson, photography by Amy Claeys, published by Visual Profile Books , November 2022 ( Amazon / Bookshop ) Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple: A Good Time Place Reborn by Pat Cannon, photography by James Caulfield, published by Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, December 2022 ( Amazon / Bookshop ) A.

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Charles F. Bloszies inserts glass addition into San Francisco cathedral complex

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The studio added a metal and glass extension to the school The extension included the "careful inssertaion" of a modern, glass-lined structure between the cathedral and the school. For the restoration, the team revamped large portions of the school building's, extending the programme of the addition's interior throughout.

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David Alan Chipperfield announced as Pritzker Architecture Laureate 2023

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James-Simon-Galerie, photo courtesy of Simon Menges In renovative works, his precision is imbued with historical acumen, informing his vision to invariably redeem original design and structure rather than supplant it wholly with modern architecture. Cities are historical records, and architecture after a certain moment is a historical record.

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Natural Wonder: 10 Examples of Arkansas’ Elaborate Institutional Architecture

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University of Arkansas Library Storage Facility By MBL Architecture Interiors Planning , Fayetteville, Arkansas In 2009, a study of Mullins Library at the University of Arkansas identified the need to renovate the space to better serve its 30,000 students. Anderson Design Center.

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