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

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Roughly 150,000 people visit his most widely known home, Fallingwater , each year. And for many Wright superfans, living in one of the roughly 400 remaining homes designed by the famed 20th-century architect is the ultimate dream. Still, Wright’s structures are notorious for aging poorly.

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Tour a restored 1970s modernist home in East Melbourne

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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.

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Stef Claes models rural Belgian home on mid-century modern architecture

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Geneva-based architect Stef Claes took cues from mid-century and local architecture to create House in the Fields, a low-lying home in the Belgian countryside. Set within a wide agricultural landscape, the home has white-painted walls and black accents, which Claes said draws on mid-century modern buildings in the United States.

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dMFK Architects restores CFA Voysey's Arts and Crafts factory to its "former glory"

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Architecture studio dMFK Architects has restored and renovated the Voysey House office in Chiswick, London , which was originally designed as a wallpaper factory by architect CFA Voysey. Recently, Voysey's Winsford Cottage Hospital in Devon was converted into a holiday home by Benjamin + Beauchamp Architects.

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Restored Kent beach cottage by Atelier Alicart is a modern idyll

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Escape the hustle of city life at this quiet Victorian beach home on the Kent Coast, magically reinvented by Atelier Alicart. It’s been masterfully restored by Atelier Alicart in a style that celebrates its transportive character, from its restored flint facade onwards. Photography: The Modern House.

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An Artful Restoration Returns a Louisville Home to Its Midcentury Roots

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John Brooks and Erik Eaker called on architecture firm Rock Paper Hammer to restore a 1953 ranch home in Louisville, Kentucky, to its modernist roots. Photo by Lucy Hewett Having lived in the Mies van der Rohe tower at 860 Lake Shore Drive , the couple had their hearts set on a midcentury-modern house. "We

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Jonathan Tuckey Design restores and extends traditional stone farmstead in Italy

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Jonathan Tuckey Design has renovated a former farmstead in northern Italy , restoring and extending a cluster of 19th-century stone buildings to create Cascina, a new home and studio. The new home occupies what was a two-storey farmhouse, while a studio space is housed in a former barn with hayloft.