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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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Fairhaven Bay Renovation by Murdough Design

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"Fairhaven Bay" is a renovation and addition to a 1950s mid-century residence located in Lincoln, MA. The design challenge involved editing and synthesizing numerous additions to the original house, which had become increasingly incoherent. The project was a collaborative effort with Richardson Associates, Landscape Architects.

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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. This renovation reactivates Lever House for the 21st century," said SOM partner Chris Cooper.

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Byró Architekti "blurs old and new" at renovated House in Kutná Hora

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Prague studio Byró Architekti has renovated a 19th-century house in the Czech town of Kutná Hora, adding unexpected openings and colourful joinery that create a playful contrast with the original interior. The house's main feature is a spiral staircase that forms a vertical circulation core at the centre of the plan.

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Google NYC's new adaptive-reuse HQ design by Gensler and COOKFOX opens at Hudson Square

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The renovation of the two-block-long former rail terminus yields a total of 1.3 John’s Terminal at Hudson Square has opened following the completion of a five-year and $2.1 billion project designed by COOKFOX Architects and Gensler. million square feet of new offices. Another nine stories were added above the existing structure.

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

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The moody lobby of La Playa Hotel features dark coffered ceilings and textured plaster walls It was taken over in 2012 by Marc & Rose Hospitality – which also operates the recently overhauled High Country Motor Lodge in Flagstaff, Arizona – and reopened in October 2023 following a long renovation process. "As

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Ome Dezin restores 1960s California residence by A Quincy Jones

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US studio Ome Dezin has renovated a large mid-century home in Brentwood, California , using a tonal colour palette and maximising the lush hillside views. This one did not disappoint — it had the typical Quincy atrium-like living space centered across from the exterior which includes a 40-foot (12-metre) waterfall."