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3 Years and Over $2 Million: What It Costs to Restore a Frank Lloyd Wright Home

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Weak foundations, leaky roofs, and poor insulation, among other problems, have reportedly caused headaches for homeowners again and again over the decades. So instead we sought out the next best thing: Frank Lloyd Wright homeowners and curators who would share what their restoration processes entailed.

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Chicago Architecture Biennial announces participants for fifth edition

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Above: Trickster (2018) by Christopher T Cornelius, who will also be contributing. Local architect and AIA gold medal winner Barney will showcase work done for DuSable Park, a waterfront park restoration project she spearheaded with Chicago-based Brook Architecture. The photo is of Hi-Lights (2018) by LOT-EK.

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The Sponge Evangelist

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Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation. In awarding the second biennial Oberlander Prize to the Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and its 2023 jury sent an unmistakable signal about the future of the field. Elizabeth K.

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Ten projects by RIBA Stirling Prize-winner Niall McLaughlin Architects

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Its previous shortlisted projects were the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre in 2018, Darbishire Place in 2015 and Bishop Edward King Chapel in 2013. Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, 2018. In 2018, the project was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize. Jesus College, 2018. The New Library at Magdalene College, 2022. Photo is by Nick Kane.

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The 50 most powerful women in architecture and design

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The exhibition, which launched in 2018 and moves into different spaces each year, recently expanded internationally with a launch in Miami , giving Ciuffi more influence globally. Having joined the studio as a junior architect in 2001, Alexandra Hagen became CEO in 2018. She is outspoken about gender equality in architecture.

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A Piet Oudolf Across the Street

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North Lawndale residents and nonprofits are currently working with the Trust for Public Land and the garden designer Piet Oudolf, along with the Urban Landscape Collaborative, to update and restore the two-acre neoclassical garden, adding new plantings, circulation patterns, and water features.

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The Courtauld Institute of Art London Renewal

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Highlights include the spectacular, newly restored LVMH Great Room, London’s oldest purpose-built exhibition space which is now home to The Courtauld’s world-famous collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art by artists including Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Van Gogh, and others. Full details: www.courtauld.ac.uk/vg-self-portraits

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