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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. The original plans. The Sunni religio.

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3 Years and Over $2 Million: What It Costs to Restore a Frank Lloyd Wright Home

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So instead we sought out the next best thing: Frank Lloyd Wright homeowners and curators who would share what their restoration processes entailed. The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Pratt House was restored as an overnight rental in 2018 by its new owners, who did the same with the neighboring Eppstein House a few years prior.

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

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New York design studio Post Company has revived a historic hotel in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California , drawing on the building's illustrious past and recent acclaim to inform its interiors. Curvaceous furniture is complemented by modern sconces and original plaster shell pendants by Frances Adler Elkins.

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Heryco blends "history and modernity" in renovation of pink apartment block

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Heryco renovated a pink Mexican apartment building Heryco converted the previous building into a restored apartment block that holds four spacious, three-bedroom apartments and a ground-floor architecture office that serves as the street-level connection and anchor. The photography is by Ariadna Polo.

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Loci Architecture Beautifully Restores 1886 Facade and Modernizes 61 West 23rd Street

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61 West 23rd Street – As part of a team tasked with modernizing a building for new commercial tenants, we restored the aging facade of the seven-story 1886 cast iron building in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District, adding a new insulated roof, and replacing the original windows with new energy-efficient units, customized to retain historic details.

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Subtle Moves Modernize a ’60s Midcentury in Portland, Oregon

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This home underwent a variety of updates, including restoration of the exterior, renovation of every interior space, and a new landscape scheme." Photo by Luke and Mallory Leasure Constructed in the 1960s, the home encapsulates a bit of the personality of the era.

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