Deezen

DECEMBER 27, 2022

French practice Bruno Gaudin Architectes has completed a 15-year project to renovate and open up the historic rue de Richelieu site of the National Library of France in Paris , incorporating new public routes and spaces. It took 15 years to renovate and open up the historic building. An aluminium-clad spiral stair has been introduced.

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Architect Renovation Restoration Site 124

Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The architects restored the space to reveal the original wooden trusses and columns To highlight the structural beauty of the building, the studio replaced the street-facing facade with glass to open up views of the space to pedestrians. This visually opened up the space while retaining distinct areas.

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Interior Project Roofing Restoration 132

Deezen

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Colleen Healey Architecture has revamped a home on a radial lot facing Washington DC 's Logan Circle, retaining historic details while updating the spaces for contemporary living. During the renovation, brick walls and floor joists were exposed to contrast a contemporary kitchen.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2023

It is clad in untreated green English oak and features pitched roofs that were informed by Oxford's river boathouses and traditional wooden barns. As a result of the building's location on an industrial heritage site, the gallery's exterior was designed to respond to the surrounding warehouse and industrial buildings visually.

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Project Architecture Renovation Masterplanning 145

Bustler

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The initiative also aims at unifying the regional design scene, bringing it closer to the international audience, strengthening its potential by providing additional education and practice to emerging designers, while at the same time contributing to the restoration of multi-cultural cooperation in the Balkan region.

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Contemporary Innovation Design Development 52

e-architect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The expression and prominent siting of these structures was seen as an eye saw and their dilapidated condition at end of life. The new amenities building seeks to recede into the dramatic rock outcrop landscape on which it is sited.

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Engineering Engineering Consulting Contemporary 86

e-architect

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Well-practised in contemporary residential architecture and interiors, Melissa White Architects reorganised the plan at Brick House, reclaiming the homes’ existing grand proportions and introducing new spacious volumes. The dining space offers a more contemporary dining experience.

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Housing Restoration Contemporary Client 61

Landscape Architecture Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

By Stephen Zacks An old industrial site in 2020, before the construction of Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok. Gray infrastructure and channelized rivers of the past century are being increasingly daylit and replaced with naturalized environments that absorb water and restore wildlife habitats.

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Foundation Landscape Industrial Contemporary 102

e-architect

JUNE 15, 2023

Located on a corner block in historic conservation zone, extensive restoration and repair work was undertaken on the external façade, whilst a modern, light filled extension married both heritage and contemporary elements. The design of a void into a section of the alfresco roof, allows light to penetrate and reach the living areas.

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Real Estate Contemporary Zoning Roofing 65

Deezen

APRIL 26, 2023

Peconic House, New York, by Mapos Nestled into a hill overlooking a Long Island bay, this holiday home designed by New York studio Mapos was topped with a roof garden and clad in untreated, earthy materials that help it blend in with the surrounding site.

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Project Design Exterior Restoration 139

e-architect

JUNE 6, 2023

While the site is located near the city center, the area is abundant with greenery and nature. How-ever, incongruous high-rise condominiums on the south side of the site, which is long and narrow in the north-south direction, created a strange view and made it difficult to secure natural light and privacy from the south side.

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Housing Real Estate Roofing Exterior 59

Habitus Living

APRIL 5, 2022

This decision was also informed by a desire to reduce as much construction waste as possible. “However, in the end the clients – being avid architecture enthusiasts – were onboard and an all-new design was abandoned in favour of a sympathetic set of architectural interventions, rigorously stitched in and around the existing building.”

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Home Restoration Client Clients 98

Architizer

JUNE 29, 2023

Sign up for key information about the 12th Annual A+Awards, set to launch this fall. Not only does the masterplan reduce the risk to the site posed by heavy rains, the elements are finely balanced, creating a thriving inter-dependent ecosystem, where flora, insects, invertebrates and aquatic life support one another.

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Sustainability Architecture Restoration Residential 91

e-architect

APRIL 12, 2023

The new addition stands in contrast with contemporary details, larger open spaces, and modernist massing. The siting of the project was influenced by local zoning regulations, however the new mass also yields to the existing house along the north elevation to celebrate the different periods of construction.

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Housing Diagram Contemporary Structural Engineering 82

e-architect

DECEMBER 17, 2022

On the former site of the Scottish comprehensive secondary school in St Andrews, Fife, founded in 1833 by the Rev. The University of St Andrews has appointed architects WilkinsonEyre to produce designs for its flagship New College project on the site of the distinctive Madras College school in the historic centre of St Andrews.

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Building Education Students Restoration 86

e-architect

JUNE 28, 2023

NODE designed the restored surface landscape on top of the water purification facility, and the underground offices at the northern end. Honghu Park Water Purification Station in Shenzhen, China – Building Information Design Team: NODE Architecture & Urbanism (NODE) – [link] Design time: 2017.Nov-2021.Mar

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Landscape Engineering Engineering Restoration 70

e-architect

MAY 11, 2023

The plans, submitted by The Silvertown Partnership, are part of a longstanding ambition associated with the wider £5bn development of the Silvertown site, which when complete will feature around 6,500 new homes with 50 per cent affordable housing, alongside a vibrant new centre for the Royal Docks.

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Real Estate Restoration Consulting Site 74

Deezen

AUGUST 14, 2023

Also featured is an installation informed by the patterns found in plants and a poetry museum that aims to highlight poetic reflection. This project seeks to address contemporary prosperity theology through a regenerative approach to the theatre, restoring the native site.

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Architecture Student Students Project Architecture 89

Deezen

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Called Bara Bridge, the structure is informed by the curved shape and migration patterns of the "bara", or long-finned eel, which play an important part in the local Dharawal people's traditions. It replaces a decaying and inaccessible bridge, restoring the connection between the park and the surrounding suburb's pedestrian and cycle routes.

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Architect Transportation Restoration Structure 105

e-architect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The site enjoys un-obscured views across the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The clients’ brief was to build a very sustainable and contemporary family home that would have the flexibility to successfully cope with changing family conditions as their children grow up.

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Housing Contemporary Utilities Restoration 40

e-architect

JANUARY 5, 2023

Mountbatten House, a large grade two listed building, cited as one of the 15 most important modern listed buildings in the UK, is set to be restored to its former glory as part of an extensive refurbishment of the property and its terraced gardens. Mountbatten House, Basingstoke listed building images / information from Grant Associates.

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Building Housing Restoration Finances 79

e-architect

JUNE 25, 2023

photo © Silkroad The visionary design proposed by the winning consortium embraces the unique natural characteristics of the site, presenting an innovative concept called the ‘Scientific Forest.’ This concept revolves around the strategy of “temporal restoration and selective construction,” with time as a vital element.

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Innovation Concept Landscape Commercial 75

e-architect

JANUARY 7, 2022

Restored to its former glory, the refurbishment of the swing bridge laid the foundations for future phases of the transformation. These substantial historic bridge structures have been carefully restored and conserved to remove years of decay and corrosion and enable new uses over. photo © Keith Hunter. photo © Peter Sandground.

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Restoration Landscape Renovation Structure 74

e-architect

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Riverside House England, Contemporary River Thames Property, English Residential Building Images, Home Design. The award winning, Winchester based team have designed this bespoke five-bedroom replacement dwelling on the site of a Victorian walled garden adjacent to the Thames. River Thames Property – Building Information.

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Housing Residential Contemporary Information 88

aasarchitecture

JULY 28, 2023

CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, together with Italo Rota, has unveiled a new hospitality project called Roccia in the hills of Monferrato, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Image © CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati The site has been in decay since a fire broke out in the early 20th century.

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Structural Engineering Engineering Engineering Restoration 52

Habitus Living

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The clients valued the home’s original, well-crafted heritage elements, leading to a thorough salvage and restoration process. Even the orange and brown-striped awnings appear to be ‘good as new’, and in a certain respect they are, having been restored along with the guttering. The island also includes an informal meals area.

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Home Restoration Design Client 52

e-architect

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A persistent exploration of historic, cultural, and civic meaning guides the firm’s work, while its design is contemporary and reflects the materials and technologies of today. For more information, please visit www.beyerblinderbelle.com About LVCK LVCK is a New York-based environmental graphics studio founded in 2013.

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Architect Restoration Firms Renovation 52

Architizer

MARCH 18, 2024

The subsequent projects showcase contemporary cultural and public buildings throughout the state. The project involved restoring or recreating dozens of late 19th-century materials and required a complex life safety strategy to ensure all buildings worked together seamlessly.

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Building Education Restoration Renovation 85

Deezen

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dezeen School Shows: a bathing pavilion informed by plants is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University of Waterloo. Also included is school designed for children with disabilities and a museum site in Rome that is enveloped in a monolithic brick wall reminiscent of traditional city walls.

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Students Project Architecture Cities 118

ArchiDiaries

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The building incorporates galleries for permanent and temporary exhibitions, a multimedia education centre, auditorium, restaurant and bookshop, as well as research, restoration and storage facilities. The architecture is informed by an honest approach to materials which extends to the expression of the coloured concrete walls.

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Restoration Education Cities Contemporary 79

e-architect

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Designed with a ‘Sponge-City’ landscape strategy, the project introduces a hilly oasis programmed for round-the-year recreation that doubles as a green lung, restoring the local biome and strengthening its hydrology. It sets a new standard for Hangzhou as a greener, more resilient city.

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Masterplanning Landscape Engineering Engineering 74

Architizer

MAY 4, 2022

The complex as a whole was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, as “a social phenomenon owes its origins to the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century.”. The first museum on the site, the Altes Museum, was designed by the Prussian architect and planner Karl Fredrich Schinkel, by order of King Frederick William III of Prussia.

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Art Restoration Architecture Renovation 88

Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Located close to the Sabie River on the western edge of Kruger National Park the South African home is informed by the termite nests and natural dolmens of Kruger Park. The building was made from locally sourced, rammed-earth mixed with a bonding agent to make the material less porous and crumbly.

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Interior Government Materials Restoration 121

e-architect

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Located at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, the two-storey sandstone house is sited on a wedge-shaped block with stunning, panoramic easterly views from the entry-level living room over bushland to Middle Harbour and beyond to the Pacific. The Fishwick House in Sydney, NSW – Building Information. Site size: 809 sqm.

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Housing Real Estate Restoration Modern 52

e-architect

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This restoration and expansion of the Ward house, a landmarked Mulholland Drive residence, doubles its livable space while emphasizing thoughtful proportions and sight lines. With its top floor cantilevered above the site, the annex footprint remains contained and distinct from the old house. Contemporary LA Houses.

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Contemporary Housing Restoration Exterior 52

e-architect

JUNE 2, 2023

Doyle Residence is an extension and partial restoration of a character villa located in a historical conservation zone, in one of Adelaide’s premier suburbs, Rose Park. They wanted to create something contemporary and urban, without it feeling like (their words) an ‘airplane hangar”. S& B Doyle, Doyle Residence What was the brief?

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Contemporary Real Estate Client Clients 65

Habitus Living

JANUARY 2, 2023

What was needed was a dining room that didn’t muck around with too much visual information and would let the view be the hero it should be. The new rooms are in keeping with the heritage portion with site poured concrete ceilings articulating the formwork for a raw edgy finish.

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Finishes Industrial Real Estate Windows 98