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Social Rehabilitation: Exploring Community Involvement in Architectural Restoration

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Image © Michele Alfieri/Shutterstock Rehabilitation involves repairing , renovating, altering, or reconstructing any building or structure. It addresses the need to significantly improve a building's failing features, primarily through strengthening or replacing elements to restore the structure's optimal performance.

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Dezeen Agenda features the restoration of Grand Palais in Paris

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The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the completion of the first phase the Grand Palais renovation. French studio Chatillon Architectes restored the Grand Palais, ahead of this summer's Olympic Games in Paris. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.

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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. This included replacing the non-original windows with steel reproductions of the original frames.

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Renovations complete on Einstein Tower, observatory built to represent Einstein's theory of relativity

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A solar observatory built to substantiate Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity has been reopened near the German capital after a renovation project to preserve it for future generations. [.] The restoration cost approximately $1.2

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F.O.G. architecture restores timber structure of conserved historical building in beijing

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architecture restores timber structure of conserved historical building in beijing appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. the construction wraps timber columns and glass partitions around an open courtyard exposing the original skeleton. The post F.O.G.

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house’s restored timber structure forms around traditional hiroma gathering space in japan

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The post house’s restored timber structure forms around traditional hiroma gathering space in japan appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. nyawa upcycles old timber, and incorporates materials, such as plywood, copper, and silk textiles.

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