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Atak Architekti creates Liberec library by restoring and extending a former rectory

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Atak Architekti restored and extended a former rectory Looking to maintain the character of the existing building, its deep foundations were used to carve out a semi-recessed basement level, housing reading rooms and spaces to be used by local clubs. Photography is by Tomáš Souček.

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Revitalizing a Contaminated Site: The Ford Calumet Environmental Center

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The exterior is clad in a rain screen of weathered steel that recalls the site’s steel mill history, with an exposed mass timber interior. miles from the site. The cost of bringing a sanitary sewer to the site was $2.0M – threatening the viability of the entire development.

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PLY+ and MPR Arquitectos convert historic Detroit building into colourful school

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PLY+ and MPR Arquitectos converted a Catholic college in Detroit into an elementary school The school occupies the site of a former religious college, Marygrove College, that closed in 2019. The building's exterior was kept intact, the only change being the addition of an accessible entrance. An existing gymnasium was renovated.

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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. Today, most of these initiatives are completed.

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nARCHITECTS tops New York nature centre with a mass-timber roof

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Reusing the rubble as a sub-base for the 330-foot (100-metre) long building, nARCHITECTS designed "a poignant transformation of a site previously defined by the presence of thousands of vehicles," the studio said. The centre sits on the foundations of a 1960s bathhouse. "As A cedar trellis wraps around the exterior.

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European Award AHI Architectural Heritage Intervetion

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Shortlisted in the Built Heritage Category The International Jury for the Category of Intervention in built heritage, made up of the architects Dikkie Scipio, Susana Valbuena, and Kimmo Lintula, has selected the following from a total of 174 projects submitted: DRDH-Julian Harrap © Karin Borghouts Carquero Arquitectura © Joan Roig Pedro Pacheco© Andre (..)

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Ten architecture projects by students at City College of New York

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Also included is a project that explores the relationship between humans and rats in New York City as well as a scheme that sees the restoration and adaptive reuse of the National Opera House. The perspectival view integrates ecological systems based in participatory practices as the foundation for addressing urban manufacturing."

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