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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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Colleen Healey adorns restored Maryland carriage house with colourful facades

Deezen

Colleen Healey Architecture has restored and expanded an early 20th-century carriage house on an unusual lot in Maryland by placing black stucco and colourful panels on the facade. Colleen Healey has restored and expanded a carriage house in Maryland. The home belongs to an entrepreneurial couple who have two children and three dogs.

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New Yorkers are still pissed about disrupted view sheds and 262 Fifth Avenue

Archinect

NYT critic Michael Kimmelman also wrote of their plight last year, declaring theirs and other opposition attempts a noble attempt at restoring the city’s history in an era defined by zoning manipulation and visible inequality.

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Transformed Tom Lee Park: Studio Gang and SCAPE Architects Revitalize Memphis Riverfront

ArchDaily

As an essential zone included in Studio Gang’s six-mile masterplan for the riverfront, t he design will serve as a model of the restored natural ecology of urban parks. Located alongside the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis , the 31-acre park is a centerpiece of the city’s riverfront. Read more »

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Stavros Tis Minthis – a modern relic restored

Hotel Designs

Image credit: Woods Bagot Every treatment room incorporates an indoor massage bed zone and an outdoor foot massage space, each defined with a different species of tree ranging from citrus, pomegranate or fig, exuding intoxicating scents and considered in in medieval iconography to represent rebirth.

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The Owner of an L.A. Neutra Doubles Its Living Space by Looking in the Unused Backyard

Dwell

The landscape architect created lush outdoor hangout zones that mirror the home’s interior. Patrick Thomas O’Neill has always been a fan of Richard Neutra. In the early 2000s, the creative director commissioned a home in Woodstock, New York, based on the architect’s Kaufmann House in Palm Springs.

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Framing Atlanta’s BeltLine as a font for gentrification

Archinect

The BeltLine has become a prime example of what urban scholars call “green gentrification” – a process in which restoring degraded urban areas by adding green features drives up housing prices and pushes out working-class residents. New leadership is attempting to address the issue through inclusionary zoning.