Mapping the most incredible mansions of Los Angeles
October 22, 2015
These estates were torn down, but their stories are not forgotten
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High Art: Oberlin’s Restored Art Museum Ceiling | National Trust for Historic Preservation
October 21, 2015
A long-obscured ceiling at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum takes the spotlight after a year-long restoration.
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Unfinished New York
October 21, 2015
Preservation has evolved from a rarified special interest to an institution — an ethos — entrenched in our culture. But has it become too conservative, elitist and even racist?
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An ‘Anarchist’s’ Plan to Reinvent the Historic House Museum – Curbed
October 21, 2015
In the Arsenal building in Central Park, where he has an office, Franklin D. Vagnone keeps a pie chart. The chart, with five segments, is called the "Evaluation Matrix," and it is the culmination of years of Vagnone's theorizing about what makes an effective historic home.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Gets New Restoration Master Plan – Curbed
October 21, 2015
One of the initial steps toward a large-scale restoration of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's winter complex in Scottsdale, Arizona, will be taken today when a proposed preservation master plan is presented to the public.
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The battle for buildings: Looking back on a decade of historic preservation in Detroit
October 20, 2015
In the last decade, efforts to preserve some of downtown's most prominent buildings have had mixed results.
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Glass en Masse – Archpaper.com
October 15, 2015
A novel preservation project takes shape in Virginia.
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Rediscover Chicago’s Pomo Moment Through These 15 Buildings
October 15, 2015
We revisit a forgotten chapter in the city's rich architectural history and discover a surprisingly contextual, responsive, and intelligent movement.
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German Photographer Hilla Becher Is Dead at Age 81 – CityLab
October 14, 2015
The German artist, dead at age 81, was half of a duo that changed the pitch of architectural photography in the 1960s.
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Why Old is the New Green | ArchDaily
October 11, 2015
“Radical common sense” is the term a fellow preservation architect uses to describe a mindset that values repair over replacement.
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Frank Lloyd Wright House Is Rebuilt Anew, Piece by Piece, in Arkansas – Curbed
October 7, 2015
In Bentonville, Arkansas, a house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a New Jersey couple more than 60 years ago has been painstakingly reassembled, board by board and pane by pane, overlooking the clear waters of the Crystal Spring
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A (Very) Close Look at Washington National Cathedral’s Earthquake Repairs | National Trust for Historic Preservation
September 30, 2015
Four years after the quake that caused major damage to Washington National Cathedral, an up-close look at the restoration's progress.
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