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Recently Restored Argentinian Icon La Casa sobre el Arroyo Receives 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize

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© Fabián Dejtiar The 1940s architectural marvel Casa Sobre el Arroyo has been awarded the 2024 Worlds Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize for its outstanding restoration. The project is the first winner of the prestigious Modernism prize in the Global South , now standing as a museum for the protection of Argentina’s modern heritage.

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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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Cut and Morph House / Ahron Best Architects

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The client, a young couple, purchased the dilapidated property with the intention of restoring the existing building and converting it into a modern. Completed in 2021 in Croydon, Australia. Images by Tom Ferguson.

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Restoration of Argentine architect Amancio Williams’s Casa sobre el Arroyo receives the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize

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The stream-straddling Casa sobre el Arroyo (House on the Stream) The post Restoration of Argentine architect Amancio Williams’s Casa sobre el Arroyo receives the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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limdim studio brings modern design to vietnamese alley house with ngâu restoration

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limdim studio completes the renovation project to harmonize modern design with the rich heritage of vietnam. The post limdim studio brings modern design to vietnamese alley house with ngâu restoration appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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What Does Midcentury Modern Even Mean These Days?

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French Broad House, Riverdale, Tennessee, 2020, Sanders Pace Architecture, 2020. Years from now, serious collectors of architectural magazines may search for that single issue of the 21st century magazine Dwell , absent a major spread of a house designed in the midcentury modern (MCM) manner or a restoration of a building from that era.

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The 11 most threatened modern sites across the U.S.

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In response to the recent surprise demolition of Marcel Breuer’s Geller I house on Long Island, modernist conservation group Docomomo US has released its first-ever list of the 11 most threatened modern sites in the United States.

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