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Post Company restores hotel known as birthplace of Apple's Macintosh computer

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New York design studio Post Company has revived a historic hotel in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California , drawing on the building's illustrious past and recent acclaim to inform its interiors. Curvaceous furniture is complemented by modern sconces and original plaster shell pendants by Frances Adler Elkins.

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Nine contemporary homes where ruins reveal layers of the past

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However, the architects in this list embrace the past by stitching domestic spaces with the remains of former buildings, creating inventive encounters with preserved architectural remains. According to the studio, the steel insertions add another layer to the home's visible "memory" and draw attention to the historic building fabric.

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Stavros Tis Minthis – a modern relic restored

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As the most recent custodians of the site, the Woods Bagot project team has revived the existing buildings while introducing ten new village square premises, 50 hotel suites and 2,400-square-metres of wellness that sit sympathetically within the historic context.

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Fabien Baron Residence by JG Neukomm Architecture

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Located in the heart of New York’s West Village, this extensive renovation for famed creative director Fabien Baron (editorial director of Interview Magazine, and founder of Baron and Baron) presented the challenge of integrating a modern, minimalist design within a historical townhouse.

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Eight renovated mid-century homes that marry period and contemporary details

Deezen

The renovations below see many of these original features retained and restored, supplemented with contemporary additions such as double-height ceilings and furniture by the likes of Tadao Ando and Mario Bellini. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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Ã…BEN BREWERY by pihlmann architects

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Built in 1932 as a modern(istic) large-scale butchery in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district, since 1991 it has hosted a range of commercial businesses, today becoming a food production facility 2.0. The rails are still present, but the carcasses are replaced with steel vessels connected by kilometers of exposed piping.

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Heryco blends "history and modernity" in renovation of pink apartment block

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Local studio Heryco has completed a renovation of a pink apartment building with arches influenced by the form of aqueducts in the city of Querétaro, México. The 5,920-square foot (550-square metre) building was completed in 1994 two blocks from the city's iconic Querétaro Aqueduct.