Restoration - Articles - Page 2 | Architectural Record

Modernist House Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Completion of Multiyear Renovation

February 21, 2023

For the last 15 years, Richard Meier’s Douglas House has been meticulously restored by its engineer owner—with the original architect looking over his shoulder.

A Tuberculosis Hospital Gets a New Lease on Life as Affordable and Supportive Housing

Jamaica, Queens

Leopoldo Villardi

February 13, 2023

No Comments

The T Building, formerly the Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis, was rehabilitated by Dunn Development, SLCE, Old Structures Engineering, and architectural conservator Mary Kay Judy.

2023 Renovation, Restoration, & Adaptive Reuse Projects

February 1, 2023

No Comments

This month's Building Type Study showcases building reuse at a variety of scales.

The Smithsonian Announces Renovation of its Historic “Castle”

Ilana Herzig

January 11, 2023

2 Comments

The sweeping restoration marks the first major renovation of the Washington, D.C., landmark in more than 50 years.

Nearly a Decade Post-Sandy, Dirtworks Restores and Reinforces a New York Wildlife Refuge

In 2018, Dirtworks alongside Rippled Waters Engineering and Great Ecology began the marsh restoration project at Jamaica Bay in the Gateway National Recreation Area

Ilana Herzig

November 21, 2022

No Comments

At Gateway National Recreation Area, the landscape architecture firm has worked collaboratively to reconstruct West Pond's shoreline and restore and create acres of tidal wetland.

Mies’s Barcelona Pavilion Reinterpreted in Carbon-Saving Wood

Fred A. Bernstein

October 7, 2022

2 Comments

As an exercise in analyzing carbon costs, the modernist masterpiece has been replicated in timber sourced from Galician forests.

In York, The Restored Clifford’s Tower Keeps Watch Over the City

Contemporary and historical elements meet in the reimagining of an 800-year-old landmark

Will Jennings

April 11, 2022

No Comments

New interventions by Hugh Broughton Architects respect a difficult cultural history while enabling the 800-year-old structure to welcome visitors.

2022 Renovation, Restoration, and Adaptive Reuse Projects

February 1, 2022

No Comments

Record highlights renovation, restoration, and adaptive reuse projects from a former power station in Moscow turned into a lively arts center by Renzo Piano Building Workshop to the sensitive resurrection of Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Memorial in Italy.

Schwarzman Center, Yale by RAMSA

New Haven, Connecticut

Josephine Minutillo

February 1, 2022

No Comments

At the heart of Yale University’s campus, Robert A.M. Stern Architects turns a Carrère & Hastings building into a 21^st-century social and cultural hub.