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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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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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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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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. Initially designed in 1943 by architects Amancio Williams and Delfina Galvez Bunge de Williams , this “house on the bridge” symbolizes Argentina’s modernist movement.

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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.

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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.

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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.