Archinect

DECEMBER 6, 2022

One of Los Angeles ’ most significant cultural landmarks, Simon Rodia ’s monumental Watts Towers sculpture, finally re-opened last month after a five-year multimillion-dollar restoration effort spearheaded by LACMA. Image of Elisabetta Covizzi working on Rodia's sculptural canopy at Watts Towers. Taken May 4, 2022, by Sara Chao.

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Archinect

APRIL 24, 2024

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Deputy Director, Occupancy Management - Real Estate at the MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority , we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for an Exhibition Designer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Image © Moare The Joslyn Art Museum in Nebraska announced that the restoration and expiation works led by Snøhetta and Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture (APMA) are nearing completion, as the transformed institution is scheduled to reopen on September 10, 2024. Southeast Aerial. Read more »

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The Architect's Newsletter

MARCH 13, 2024

Art deco towers inscribed with the name “Sears Roebuck and Co.” The city of Hackensack, New Jersey, The post In Flatbush, Brooklyn, plans to restore the art deco Sears Roebuck & Co. in big bold letters at their apex are common sights throughout the U.S. building move forward appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

JUNE 12, 2023

Less than a decade later, the partially restored museum has restarted its activities once again. It joins a slate of other important restoration projects in the city, led by the somewhat controversial UNESCO-backed reconstructions of Al-Nouri Mosque , Our Lady of the Hour Church, and some 124 historic houses.

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Archinect

JANUARY 30, 2023

While the project would roughly double the size of the existing 1970s structures at Restoration Plaza, the property's namesake open space would be retained by building up, rather than out. Current estimates are for an eight-year construction timeline.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

According to The Art Newspaper , local firms Velatura Restaurações and Construtora Biapó have now completed the restoration of the historic facade and expect the building to be completely reopened sometime in 2027.

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Archinect

APRIL 18, 2022

The UNESCO -led effort to restore the historic Al-Nouri Mosque in Mosul has come to a halt this week after recent discoveries and feedback from the community have prompted a change of direction from the cultural agency. Exterior elements like sun shading will be thrown out as well.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Speaking to The Times in September Philippe Villeneuve, the chief architect of French national historic monuments, said that once completed the cathedral would be “luminous” The peel-off material is similar to the Arte Mundit product that was used controversially in a restoration of St. “The quest.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Italian studio Robocoop has created a temporary facade to blend into its historic surroundings and hide ongoing construction on a palace courtyard restoration in Rome. Our recent project at Palazzo Mattei di Giove blends installation art with ephemeral architecture," they said. The duo is based between Rome and London.

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designboom

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The post reversible rainbow barrel lids restore dated facade of national arts center in cape verde appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. ramos castellano arquitectos install the rotating barrel lids at centro nacional de artesanato e design to let air and sunlight flow.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This new 4-story building was designed as a fine art storage facility. In addition to the main function, the preservation of art and cultural assets, there are also rooms for collection care and exhibition preparation. This material selection was inspired by the buildings of the Darmstadt Artists‘ Colony in Mathildenhöhe.

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2024

Named Stanton Yards, after the marina it is to be built on, the project includes the conversion of four warehouses into an integrated "arts campus". SO-IL will provide critical restorations of the structures and unify the campus through a courtyard area that will connect to the buildings as well as to the street and adjacent marina.

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Dwell

JANUARY 11, 2023

John Brooks and Erik Eaker called on architecture firm Rock Paper Hammer to restore a 1953 ranch home in Louisville, Kentucky, to its modernist roots. A Photon chandelier by Tech Lighting hangs in the entryway, surrounded by John and Erik’s contemporary art collection.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Several restaurants and a hotel have opened within Detroit 's historic Book Tower as part of a years-long restoration project of the building undertaken by its developer and architecture studio ODA.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Construction has commenced on the Foster + Partners -designed Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in Spain. The project sees the expansion and remodeling of the existing 20th-century building, with major moves including the creation of a new public atrium space and art galleries in a “floating pavilion.

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The Architecture Designs

JUNE 14, 2023

However, in the sphere of art restoration, such revolutionary processes are already unfolding. Central to this discourse is the emerging technology of laser cleaning, a technique that holds promising implications for the careful and meticulous world of art and artifact conservation.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Architecture Research Office (ARO) , in partnership with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) and The Olana Partnership (TOP), has today revealed a new plan for the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape at the Olana State Historic Site in Upstate New York.

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Deezen

MAY 7, 2024

In this video, Dezeen previews the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's latest blockbuster fashion exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, following last night's Met Gala. Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion takes place from 10 May to 2 September at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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designboom

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

meticulously restored by a creative duo, the residence invites year-round arts programming exploring the intersection between digital and physical arts. The post philip johnson’s restored 1940s wolfhouse doubles as an inclusive cultural space in new york appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

JUNE 12, 2023

” In 2012 the site was acquired by the Powerhouse Environmental Arts Foundation, a not-for-profit organization created to redevelop the property and manage operations as Powerhouse Arts. This adaptive re-use project aims to transform the old Turbine Hall building into a fabrication a.

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Archinect

MAY 1, 2024

Marcel Breuer ’s restored 1950 Marshad House in the Hudson Valley has been listed with an asking price of $1.8 Galerie noted it includes a 290-square-foot converted art studio in the former garage. The residence at 204 Cleveland Street in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, is a three-bedroom design with 1.5

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has converted a listed room in Norway into a restaurant , adding an angular mirrored bar and restoring the building's historical frescoes. The artworks are now restored and lit with state-of-the-art lighting." The photography is by Sigurd Fandango.

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The Architect's Newsletter

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For three decades, the art moderne–style Eldorado Ballroom sat on the corner of Dowling Street—now Emancipation Avenue—and Elgin Street in Houston as a prominent Black music venue during the Jim The post Stern & Bucek Architects restores the Eldorado Ballroom, a Black cultural site in Houston’s Third Ward appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper. (..)

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The Architect's Newsletter

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

At the Kansas City Museum, a whimsical architectural intervention is underway with the forthcoming renovation of the museum’s historic Beaux Arts conservatory.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Local design studio Hauvette & Madani drew on the Haussmannian history of this Paris apartment to create a gallery-like interior for its occupant's vast art collection. We carried out meticulous research to find the right motifs and decorations to restore the place to its former glory and Haussmannian charm," she told Dezeen.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Nanjing University of the Arts found an open space among the crowded dormitory buildings, preparing to use the public housing space on the ground floor of the original 46th dormitory to renovate and expand a two-story art exhibition hall. D ouble-theme exhibition hall. The gallery was endowed by a company.

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The Spaces

APRIL 30, 2024

A fan of the Art Deco aesthetic seen on ocean liners crossing the Atlantic, Eaton commissioned French architect Jacques Carlu, who designed an expansive penthouse space with murals, bas reliefs, promenade and 600-seat ‘grande salle’ in a style known as Streamline Moderne.

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The Architect's Newsletter

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In Newport Beach, California, Richard Neutra’s Mariners’ Medical Arts building expertly couples health and design by treating outdoor spaces as an extension of its interior.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Following a major 11-year-long, $96 million restoration led by Rotterdam-based firm KAAN Architecten , the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) finally reopened in Belgium. Twenty-first century white cube galleries have been incorporated into the original structure, increasing the exhibition space by 40%.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Four finalist concept designs were just unveiled by the Portland Museum of Art for a planned expansion of the institution set to be completed by 2026 in the thriving New England cultural capital. If museums don’t continue to grow, if you fall back, it can take a generation to recover.".

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Architecture Here and There

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

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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The Spaces

JUNE 29, 2022

Battersea Power Station’s 1930s control room has been restored to its former glory – ready for its new life as an events space. As well as the original technology and switchboards (all of which have been restored) the space retains its art deco interior. Control Room A following its restoration.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The 45,000-square-foot expansion is the fifth building designed by Siza for the foundation after the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (1999), Manoel de Oliveira Cinema House (2019), Gardeners’ House (2021), and the restored Serralves Art Déco Villa (2021).

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designboom

AUGUST 23, 2022

The post messner architects’ restored ‘20/A’ doubles as a home and art studio for hannes egger in italy appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the modest punched-window façade, double-pitched gabled roof and arched entrance gate preserve the home's historic facade.

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Hotel Designs

JUNE 13, 2023

In recent years, the iconic property has been restored to its former glory by a team of respected designers and consultants from Virserius Studio, PHX Architecture, Serving the Nation, Inc., Burton Studio and Wimberly Interiors.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JULY 12, 2022

After several years of fervent cleaning and replacing ornamentation, restoration work on the facade of Buenos Aires’ art nouveau style Confitería del Molino has completed, and the historic building has [.].

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