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The Stonewall Inn historic site is getting a new visitors center

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Plans for an expanded presence at the site, which includes a sculpture installation by George Segal, the bar, and Christopher Park, have been floated around since it was officially declared a national monument by President Obama in 2016.

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Construction commences on SOM skyscrapers at former Chicago Spire site

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American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade's worth of revisions and delays. Images show workers filling the giant foundation hole that has been left at the site alongside the Chicago River on Lake Michigan for nearly twenty years.

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Examining the history and importance of four LGBTQ sites newly listed by the National Trust for Historic Places

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Preserving spaces are integral to maintaining America's gay communities and keeping the memory of their members' hard work in establishing physical sites of resistance in the face of legal repression, violence, and generational intolerance. The cover of the publication LGBTQ America.

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Calatrava’s completed St Nicholas Church at 9/11 site features a translucent stone exterior that appears to ‘glow by the light of 10,000 candles’ at night

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The church is the second Calatrava-designed project to be completed at the World Trade Center Memorial site in New York City, following his World Trade Center Transportation Hub , which opened in 2016. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine.

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"Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites"

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The first was replaced with a mixed development with a net loss of social housing, the latter is still a building site. Each of these Barber projects is an example of enjoyable, imaginative architecture, a peculiar response to a peculiar site. Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites.

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Loader Monteith adds charred-timber-clad office to brownfield site in Inverness

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Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof , along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. The first of two planned residences, it is distinguished by its lower height and butterfly roof.

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Herzog & de Meuron’s Powerhouse Arts restoration opens in Brooklyn

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A crossover arts and manufacturing project from Herzog & de Meuron opened on May 19 following several years of construction that remade a former brownfield site into the new home of the non-profit Powerhouse Arts in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Herzog & de Meuron says: “The industrial landscape and history of the site play a pivota.

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