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Notre Dame Cathedral completes spire reconstruction ahead of 2024 reopening

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France had previously reversed plans for the restoration’s completion before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games prior to the death of project overseer General Jean-Louis Georgelin in August. Both outstanding elements are expected to be added later, along with contemporary stained glass windows.

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7 Contemporary Female Architects Leading Practice in the Arab World

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Bengana’s office is renowned for its multi-scalar projects, characterized by meticulous attention to detail both on their exterior and interior. Yasmine and Yacout Benmoussa are twin sisters from Morocco who have founded Studio CAYS in 2019 in Casablanca, choosing its name as an anagram of the abbreviations of their names.

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Álvaro Siza expands his Serralves Museum in Porto with angular gallery

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A gallery bridge connects the extension to the existing building Siza completed the Serralves Museum in 1999 before going on to create the Manoel de Oliveira Cinema House in 2019 and a gardener's house and the restoration of the Serralves art deco building in 2021. Granite panels form a grey band wrapping the bottom of the walls.

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Melbourne Houses: Victoria Properties

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Contemporary Melbourne Houses, New Victoria Properties, Australia Residence Photos. Located on a long and narrow site in the bayside suburb of Middle Park, the Richardson St House project sought to renovate and restore a single fronted Victorian terrace and provide a spacious, light filled modern extension to the rear. 17 Oct 2022.

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Top 10 tallest mass-timber buildings around the world

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Photo courtesy of Moelven Mjøstårnet, Norway, by Voll Arkitekter (2019) Certified as the world's tallest timber building at the time of its completion in 2019, the 85.4-metre-tall According to the project developer Zug Estates, Arbo was the tallest wooden building in Switzerland when it was completed in 2019.

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Notre-Dame falls to Disney?

Architecture Here and There

Interior of Notre-Dame cathedral before fire in April 2019. For two years, international attention has been focused on whether the exterior would be an authentic rebuild rather than a modernist mashup of the building. insider.com). Officials overseeing reconstruction of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame announced, on Sept.

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Twelve architecture projects to look out for in 2024

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This project gives shape to our ideas about community gathering, the importance of indigenous forms of governance and what contemporary African architecture can be on a national scale," said the studio's founder Diébédo Francis Kéré.

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