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Glasgow School of Art enters Phase 2 of its Mackintosh Building restoration

Archinect

Shortly following a devastating fire that caused widespread damage to the historic structure in June of 2018, work began to dismantle parts of the building that were at risk of sudden collapse. At the time of the blaze, the Mackintosh Building had been undergoing extensive restoration due to an earlier fire that damaged the site in 2014.

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

Dwell

So instead we sought out the next best thing: Frank Lloyd Wright homeowners and curators who would share what their restoration processes entailed. The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Pratt House was restored as an overnight rental in 2018 by its new owners, who did the same with the neighboring Eppstein House a few years prior.

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Tour a restored 1970s modernist home in East Melbourne

The Spaces

Local architect Dale Fisher designed this brick and glass property in the East Melbourne suburb of Balwyn, which has undergone a sympathetic expansion and restoration by architect David Neil, principal of Neil Architecture.

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Rowan Moore pleas to end the time-wasting for Glasgow’s lost Mackintosh library rebuild

Archinect

Moore also claims “the responsibility to bring back a national treasure should not be theirs alone” (meaning the school’s) in support of his view that setting up an SPV for development would be, for now, the best way to go in order to meet the original promises issued in 2018.

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18th-century weaving mill restored to its past glory as a design showroom in belgium

designboom

Founders Hans and Stijn Sterck launched the restoration in 2018, joining forces with Objekt Architecten to revive the historical building […]. The post 18th-century weaving mill restored to its past glory as a design showroom in belgium appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Update on Mack restoration

Architecture Here and There

Glasgow School of Art before the fires of 2014 and 2018. The famous 1909 Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh has not been rebuilt after its near destruction after two fires in 2014 and 2018. Faithful reinstatement leans, as I understand it, more toward replication among the various synonyms for restoration.

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Stay in a Puglian castle restored by two London creatives

The Spaces

Set within 37 acres of citrus and olive groves, Castle Elvira had sat abandoned for a century when club-owner Steve Riseley and creative director Harvey B-Brown discovered it in 2018. The post Stay in a Puglian castle restored by two London creatives appeared first on The Spaces.