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Call For Entries: Domus Restoration and Preservation International Award - IX Edition

ArchDaily

© Domus Award The International Prize for Architectural Restoration “Fassa Bortolo Domus Restoration and Preservation” was established for the purpose of rewarding and promoting architectural restoration works that have managed to best interpret the preservation principles including through the use of contemporary forms of expression.

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SOM Completes Restoration of New York’s Lever House, Seven Decades After Originally Designing It

ArchDaily

© Lucas Blair Simpson © SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has completed the restoration works for Lever House, one of New York’s Modernist landmarks. The building was completed in 1952, following SOM’s design. Read more »

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Brazil has turned a corner in its yearslong National Museum restoration project

Archinect

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. ” They also mentioned that the fire apparently served as a “violent intervention”

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Kauh restores historic Spanish park to be a "palimpsest of its evolution"

Deezen

Spanish architecture practice Kauh has completed the renovation of La Hoya Park in the historical centre of Almería, restoring a series of stepped, dry stone terraces on the site of a 13th-century town. For the planting, protected species found on the site were maintained and accompanied by new fruit and mulberry trees.

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Renovation, Restoration, & Adaptive Reuse 2024

Architectural Record

RECORD explores recent works by architects who restore, reclad, and reuse existing buildings to accomodate contemporary context, expanded capacity, or reimagined function.

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Robocoop conceals Rome palace restoration work with "illusionary infill facade"

Deezen

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. The post Robocoop conceals Rome palace restoration work with "illusionary infill facade" appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Robocoop.

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SOM completes restoration of New York's historic Lever House

Deezen

US-based architecture studio SOM has completed a restoration of the Lever House seventy years after the studio originally designed the historic New York City office building. We've restored the plaza and podium to its original 1952 glory while comprehensively overhauling the mechanical systems."