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Fentress' Norwegian Embassy restoration is a testament to the country's unique design heritage

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Fentress Architects ’ AIA chapter award-winning Chancery restoration project for the Embassy of Norway has officially opened to the public, representing a first for the 42-year-old Denver-based firm. Situated between the official Vice Presidential Residence and National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.’s

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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.

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

Dwell

His admirers congregate in Facebook Groups, like the 120,000-member Frank Lloyd Wright Nation , to share photos of his structures and discuss his brilliance on the daily. Still, Wright’s structures are notorious for aging poorly. Roughly 150,000 people visit his most widely known home, Fallingwater , each year.

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Stavros Tis Minthis – a modern relic restored

Hotel Designs

Image credit: Woods Bagot The 16th-century monastery and accompanying existing structures are built from locally-sourced limestone in an example of the architecture of the Byzantine era. Main image credit: Woods Bagot Stavros Tis Minthis – a modern relic restored Pauline Brettell.

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Foster + Partners unveils winning bid for reimagined Television City in LA

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Foster + Partners has been revealed as the architectural designers of a major new campus modernization project for the famed former CBS Television City in Los Angeles. At a cost of $1 billion, the firm is now under contract to deliver what will be the first all-electric studios in the city.

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Jonathan Tuckey Design restores and extends traditional stone farmstead in Italy

Deezen

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 two structures have been connected by a first-floor bridge.

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Update on Mack restoration

Architecture Here and There

While its restoration may be years off, the good news is that in October, leaders of the school agreed that “faithful reinstatement” would be the preferred strategy for rebuilding. Faithful reinstatement leans, as I understand it, more toward replication among the various synonyms for restoration. What a horror!