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Social Rehabilitation: Exploring Community Involvement in Architectural Restoration

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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. Rehabilitation can serve as a model that brings community members together for inclusive repair and restoration of structures. Read more »

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AECOM to provide ‘environmental restoration and compliance services’ for NASA

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Architecture and infrastructure consulting firm AECOM is to provide environmental restoration and compliance services to NASA facilities across the U.S. The five-year contract will see AECOM deliver environmental sampling, contaminants investigations, and human, health, and ecological risk assessments to NASA’s U.S. facilities.

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Call For Entries: Domus Restoration and Preservation International Award - IX Edition

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© Domus Award The International Prize for Architectural Restoration “Fassa Bortolo Domus Restoration and Preservation” was established for the purpose of rewarding and promoting architectural restoration works that have managed to best interpret the preservation principles including through the use of contemporary forms of expression.

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Restoration of Saarinen-designed First Christian Church tower completed in Columbus, Indiana

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The Landmark Columbus Foundation has shared photos of Louis Joyner Architect 's completed tower restoration of the landmark First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, designed by Eero Saarinen and his father, Eliel , in 1942. The project took eight months to complete, wrapping up this past December.

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SOM Completes Restoration of New York’s Lever House, Seven Decades After Originally Designing It

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© Lucas Blair Simpson © SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has completed the restoration works for Lever House, one of New York’s Modernist landmarks. The building was completed in 1952, following SOM’s design. Read more »

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Studio Bressan completes conservative restoration of Portello Colmarion in Italy

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The post Studio Bressan completes conservative restoration of Portello Colmarion in Italy appeared first on Åvontuura. The portal, belonging to the medieval walls dating back to the fourteenth century of the city, is positioned in a panoramic hilly area.

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Explore images of Shubin Donaldson’s completed restoration of Richard Neutra’s Mariners Medical Arts building in Orange County

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An overlooked design from one of Southern California’s most respected midcentury designers, Richard Neutra ’s Mariners Medical Arts building in Newport Beach, California, was restored thanks to Los Angeles-based ShubinDonaldson.