Top Preservation Stories

Matt Lambros

This year, AN reported on efforts being made around the country to transform aging architectural icons into state-of-the-art facilities. Here are a few of our favorites.

The Kings Theatre’s Second Act

Brooklyn’s largest and most stunning theater gets a meticulous renovation.

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Shine On

Louis Sullivan’s Ohio "Jewel Box" in the rough gets polished. 

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Experimental Histories

Irene Cheng sticks her nose in new ways of uncovering the past.

 
 

 

History Lesson

Two structural engineers on what they learned while preserving historic masonry.

 

 

Sacrificing Modernism

Two Lescaze buildings to be demolished in New York City.

 

 
 

 

A Future for the Past

Four case studies of transformative retrofits.

 

 
 

 

Make Way for The Modern

MoMA and DS+R to rework visitor experience, demolish Folk Art Building.

 

 

Comment> Pamela Jerome

The Mid-Century Modernist single-glazed curtain wall is an endangered species.

 

 
 

 

Sert-Ified

Bruner/Cott give new life to a Josep Lluis Sert building at Boston University.

 

 
 

 

Wright Goes to Bentonville

Crystal Bridges Museum acquires a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian House from New Jersey.

 

 

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