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Álvaro Siza expands his Serralves Museum in Porto with angular gallery

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The geometric wing branches off the existing museum The Álvaro Siza Wing is the latest collaboration between the 90-year-old architect and the Serralves Foundation – the cultural institution behind the Serralves villa and museum, which are located within the park. It opened over the weekend with C.A.S.A., The wing opened with the C.A.S.A.

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Albert Frey's all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs

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The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. Much of its framing was done in steel, while the exterior was clad in non-load-bearing corrugated aluminium walls.

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Before & After: A Family of Four Gives a Derelict Catskills Farmhouse a Whimsical Revamp

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When Geoffrey MacDougall decided to buy a quaint, circa-1815 farmhouse in the Catskills, he was standing in six inches of water in the basement, surrounded by its crumbling stone foundation and rusted-out mechanical systems. Before: Exterior Before: The home was in extreme disrepair, but its form appealed to the family.

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Buffalo AKG Art Museum by OMA and Shohei Shigematsu

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The Buffalo AKG Art Museum is both. Our ambition for the extension was not only to expand the complex to accommodate the museum’s growing art collection and diversifying programs, but also to reconnect it to the park and city and establish a new openness to public activities. Wilson Foundation Town Square.

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The Venice Venice Hotel – audacious and avant-garde

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Image credit: Alessandro Lana / Venice Venice Hotel A five-year restoration began, with a major rethink needed after the hotel had stood abandoned for decades. fashion and the art of travel.

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Treasure Island: The Museum Island Berlin is a Trove of Art, Architecture and History

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The king’s successor, King Frederick William IV, after 11 years of the Altes Museum’s completion in 1830, decided to rebuild the Spree Island into “ a sanctuary for art and science.”. Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht took the recent restoration work, which won the competition in 1998. The Bode-Museum © Thomas Wolf (CC BY-SA 3.0

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Port of Beirut renewal by ALIPH: buildings

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To implement this plan, the Foundation has been closely cooperating with the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA) and international or professional organizations (including UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOM, ICOMOS, IFLA, Blue Shield) to assess the needs and identify projects. Cathédrale Orthodox St. This, in turn, has led to job creation.