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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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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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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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Fairhaven Bay Renovation by Murdough Design

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The design updates and expands interior and exterior spaces including an expanded kitchen, a new screened porch, a new entry and restored entry rotunda, updated living room and family room, as well as updates to all interior and exterior finishes.

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Ome Dezin restores 1960s California residence by A Quincy Jones

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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." The post Ome Dezin restores 1960s California residence by A Quincy Jones appeared first on Dezeen. California has no shortage of mid-century properties in need of revamping.

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Morgan Library facade and garden are restored for the first time in 115 years

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New York City’s Morgan Library & Museum historic main facade has been restored for the first time in the institution’s 115-year history following an extensive exterior restoration project, that also [.].

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ZMMA references landscape paintings for revamp of Gainsborough House in Suffolk

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London practice ZMMA has transformed the home of artist Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk , into a gallery and museum with a material palette of redbrick and flint informed by his landscape paintings. It has a red brick and flint exterior. The studio referenced Gainsborough's local landscape paintings.

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