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

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His admirers congregate in Facebook Groups, like the 120,000-member Frank Lloyd Wright Nation , to share photos of his structures and discuss his brilliance on the daily. Still, Wright’s structures are notorious for aging poorly. Roughly 150,000 people visit his most widely known home, Fallingwater , each year.

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beloved Hollyhock House Reopens After Two Years

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s first and only UNESCO World Heritage Site, a title the home earned in 2019. During its closure, the home underwent a number of conservation projects, including the restoration of its art-glass balcony doors and bas-relief fireplace, which brings together classical elements of earth, air, fire and water. It’s also L.A.’s

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Akira Koyama + KEY OPERATION INC. / ARCHITECTS Redefine the Sakuragicho Residence Exterior

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Sakuragicho Residence – The development endeavored to re-define exterior wall tiling and balcony construction distinctive to, yet typical of, large apartment blocks. Akira Koyama: In Japan, individually-owned apartments as of 2019 numbered 6.65 The brickwork-grooved exterior wall was originally planned to be painted in black.

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Tracing Frank Lloyd Wright’s Influence

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Over his 70-year career, Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 structures—museums, homes, churches, commercial buildings—532 of which were built. Meanwhile, Lloyd Wright’s son, Eric Lloyd Wright , also went on to become an architect and spent much of his career restoring his father’s and grandfather’s buildings.

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Top 10 tallest mass-timber buildings around the world

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As part of our Timber Revolution series, we have rounded up the world's 10 tallest buildings with mass-timber structures, including an engineered-wood shopping-centre extension and a carbon-negative cultural centre. metre-tall luxury apartment and retail tower in Wisconsin was certified last year as the world's tallest timber building.

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Marcel Breuer's brutalist office in Connecticut reopens as Hotel Marcel

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Connecticut-based studio Becker + Becker , which bought the building from IKEA in 2019 after it had sat unused for more than twenty years, retained the facade of the Breuer-designed structure while updating the interiors. Hotel Marcel is a restored Brutalist building in Connecticut. It was originally designed by Marcel Breuer.

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Pema Studio designs home in Portugal as "a dense and closed fortress"

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Architecture practice Pema Studio drew on the idea of a protected fortress when creating the Forte House, a blocky, white-rendered home that replaces a neglected existing structure in Santo Tirso, Portugal. The living space echoes the white exterior of the house Based in Santo Tirso, Pema Studio was founded by Tiago Pedrosa Martins in 2019.

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