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BIG-designed National Juneteenth Museum receives $1 million grant

Archinect

The money will contribute to the project’s estimated $70 million price tag. Located in Fort Worth ’s Historic Southside neighborhood, the museum will serve as an epicenter for awareness and preservation of Juneteenth’s history.

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A Monumental Home Made of Cinder Blocks and Glass Seeks $6M in L.A.

Dwell

Designed by architect Finn Kappe, the Pacific Palisades property comes with massive living areas—and a price tag to match. acres From the agent: "Designed by Finn Kappe and completed in 1992, the site originally housed a small historical Spanish structure which was honored by preserving the facade.

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Gebreyohanes to the rescue!

Architecture Here and There

Restore Trust believes that the National Trust’s mission of preserving the nation’s most treasured historic buildings has been downgraded in favor of allegedly more pressing issues under the umbrella of “woke.” What about the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the chief U.S.

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A Café Is a Country

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Preserving The Ohlone Culture. With his partner Louis Trevino, Medina is a cofounder of mak-’amham, a Bay Area organization focused on the preservation of Ohlone language and culture. The space he’s speaking of is the entry court of the historic Phoebe A. By Timothy A. Courtesy Hannah Pae, Associate ASLA, Terremoto.

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“Quiet Luxury”: 8 Spaces Evoking the Immaculate Aesthetic of HBO’s Succession

Architizer

Quiet Luxury brands have nothing to distinguish them visually from other high street brands, yet they bear the astronomical price tags of pieces from some of the biggest fashion houses in the world — why? That’s a question I can’t answer. The thing is, Quiet Luxury isn’t necessarily about who made it.

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Agency of the Subsurface

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The group’s main goal would be archaeological: to map, and thus help preserve, sites of human settlement before they are lost to development, natural decay, climate change, and war. Modeled after NASA or the ESA , this new institute would spend its time, in his words, “ looking downward instead of up.”

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Reader’s Choice: The 10 Most Popular Architecture Projects on Architizer in 2022

Architizer

A stellar drawing, rendering or photo, and a detailed project description can go a long way in making a project stand out, as does tagging the stellar contributors on a project. The renovation process uncovered original stone masonry and small historical fragments, which the clever conversion not only preserves, but showcases.

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