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A major step forward in the restoration of the Mackintosh Library was marked today, 3 February 2017, with the appointment of Laurence McIntosh to construct a full-size prototype of a library bay.
Architect: Liddicoat & Goldhill. The playful ‘Ancient Party Barn’ is the conversion, renovation and restoration of a Kentish barn into a highly unusual home.
Design: Ben Herzog, Architect. The architects added a new stair bulkhead to the roof and a roof deck with embedded lights, removed a 2-story portion of the rear structural wall and replaced it with glass and aluminum panels
Design: Openstudio Architects. Central London, design-led, development expert, Alchemi Group secures planning approval for its restoration of the Grade II listed Westminster Fire Station in Victoria.
Design: GLCRM and Provencher_Roy Architects
A new reception pavilion plus preservation of historic Parliament Building designed by Eugène-Étienne Taché.
U.S. Capitol building dome restoration news. After two years of meticulous repairs led by Architect of the Capitol Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, along with architect-of-record Hoffman Architects, the historic landmark is now back to its former glory.
Design: Luigi Rosselli, Architects. It is quite rare in Woollahra to have a house waterfront residence so close to the water. One gets the feeling of being in Sydney Harbour when looking out of the oversized wafer-thin framed windows.
Alex Salmond suggests the Houses of Parliament should be rebuilt in Liverpool or Manchester. The current ‘patch and mend’ maintenance approach is no longer sustainable. Work to save the Grade I listed Palace of Westminster building is to start in 2022.
Design: Fluor Architecture
The complete renovation of a former private mansion in Arles exactly responded to the Foundation’s desire to bring a contemporary perspective on the work of Vincent van Gogh to life.
Design: at26, architects. Attic apartment located at the top of the block of 1920s flats in an old neighbourhood formerly known as „Ziegelfeld“. The area has a mix of industrial and residential: this imprint of historical feeling is still present.
The 17th-century ‘house of delight’ that began an architectural movement in Britain re-opens this October. This British Palladian villa design by architect Inigo Jones, is one of the UK’s most historically important buildings, a masterpiece of British architecture.
Design: Adelfio Anello Architetti. Design of the buvette of theatre and the bookshop in the adjoining room overlooking Piazza Verdi, in order to achieve a cafe open to the city, even outside of the show times and a bookshop with merchandising for the theater.
Design: Zotov&Co, architects. The main advantage is the separate exit door. Because the freedom is above everything. Сourtyard garden is an additional space for conference room as well as a place for rest. The architects were searching an office for rent, but everywhere interiors were decorated with laminate, wallpaper, plastic, trendy “peach” color. This space was not “spoiled” yet.
Design: ReardonSmith Architects with interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon. Two spectacular suites: creation of an entirely new Savoy Suite and a renovated Royal Suite, conceived to introduce an even greater degree of luxurious sophistication for the hotel’s most distinguished guests.
Article: D.H. Evans. Sir William Alfred Gelder (1855-1941) was the last of Hull’s celebrated Victorian architects, and established one of the largest architectural practices in the city; he went on to be Lord Mayor of Hull five times.
Design: Eureka. The design started off by understanding the subtle differentiation between outside and inside, as well as the basic forms of square and circles in traditional Chinese architecture.
Design: Louis Kahn architect
After a decade of planning, eight years of renovation and a 16-month closure, this masterpiece designed by the Philadelphia architect during the last 15 years of his life reopens to the public on May 11.