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

Archinect

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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Brooklyn’s historic Domino Sugar Factory restoration lights up with signs of progress

Archinect

A beloved monument returned to the Brooklyn skyline without pomp or circumstance last night when the Domino Sugar sign was quietly relit atop the Thomas Havemeyer building’s new barrel vaulted glass roof, illuminating the Williamsburg waterfront for the first time in eight years.

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SOM completes restoration of New York's historic Lever House

Deezen

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. Upon the developers' purchase of the building in 2020, many of the interior spaces had fallen into disrepair.

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lightweight glass box adheres to 1870s gothic building after hyde + hyde’s restoration

designboom

The post lightweight glass box adheres to 1870s gothic building after hyde + hyde’s restoration appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the new extension applies quatrefoil tectonic tiles in bronze and steel textures amplifying the original brick facade.

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

Archinect

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. The original plans.

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Restored Book Tower in Detroit features hospitality venues by Method Co

Deezen

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 cosy interior has exposed brick walls and dark wood accents, complemented by marble mosaic flooring, antiqued mirrors and velvet drapery.

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Tour a restored 1970s modernist home in East Melbourne

The Spaces

Local architect Dale Fisher designed this brick and glass property in the East Melbourne suburb of Balwyn, which has undergone a sympathetic expansion and restoration by architect David Neil, principal of Neil Architecture.