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SOM completes restoration of Lever House, a midcentury Manhattan office icon

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has announced the completion of a recent restoration project that’s meant to breathe new life into their historic Lever House design in Manhattan. Reed Hilderbrand has also contributed a comprehensive new landscape program for the building that connects the plaza area to third-floor terraces.

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UNESCO's restoration of Iraq's historic Al-Nouri mosque site has been placed on hold

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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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Restored Book Tower in Detroit features hospitality venues by Method Co

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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. The post Restored Book Tower in Detroit features hospitality venues by Method Co appeared first on Dezeen.

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SOM completes restoration of New York's historic Lever House

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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."

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

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Restored elements of the building include a staircase with tiled risers and iron railings The team worked with Post Company to uncover historical details about the property, which was originally built in 1905 by landscape painter Chris Jorgensen for his wife, chocolate heiress Angela Ghirardelli. The photography is by Chris Mottalini.

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Notre Dame Cathedral completes spire reconstruction ahead of 2024 reopening

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France had previously reversed plans for the restoration’s completion before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games prior to the death of project overseer General Jean-Louis Georgelin in August. Both outstanding elements are expected to be added later, along with contemporary stained glass windows.

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Charles F. Bloszies inserts glass addition into San Francisco cathedral complex

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The studio added a metal and glass extension to the school The extension included the "careful inssertaion" of a modern, glass-lined structure between the cathedral and the school. For the restoration, the team revamped large portions of the school building's, extending the programme of the addition's interior throughout.

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