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exterior of a british broadcaster building
Making The List

Concern grows for Channel 4’s Richard Rogers–designed London headquarters amid sell-off scheme

a damaged building in beirut
The Time Is Now

The 2022 World Monuments Watch identifies 25 at-risk cultural sites in urgent need of preservation

A low slung wooden geller house designed by marcel breuer
Gone Overnight

Marcel Breuer’s Geller House I demolished on Long Island without warning

east river park in the summer
Protection At A Price

New York begins demolition of East River Park for new concrete storm barriers

interior of a postmodern atrium
Looking Back

Revisit AN’s top historic preservation stories of 2021

a look at soho
Gone With The Garden?

SoHo/NoHo rezoning puts Elizabeth Street Garden on rockier footing

a white stucco building at Michigan State Fairgrounds
A Fair Deal?

Historic buildings at the old Michigan State Fairgrounds will be incorporated into a new transit center

Sketchup on ipad next to some coffee
On The Go

Daily digest: Trimble launches SketchUp for iPad, U.K. housing secretary Robert Jenrick is out, and more

aerial view of downtown Indianapolis
Local Hire

Indianapolis hires new deputy planning director with a focus on equity

The grounds of templo mayor
Tacky Tenochtitlan?

Mexico’s foam Aztec pyramid replica draws ridicule online

A statue of robert e lee covered with a black tarp in front of an anti racism march against confederate monuments
To The Halls Of History

More than a dozen organizations apply to acquire Charlottesville’s toppled Confederate monuments

rendering of a holocaust memorial made of 23 swooping bronze fins
Wrangling In Westminster

Adjaye and Arad’s controversial Holocaust memorial wins approval from U.K. Housing minister

A woman sitting in Elizabeth Street Garden
Haven For Whom?

New York’s proposed replacement of Elizabeth Street Garden with affordable housing sparks a difficult debate

black and white photo of a famous work of japanese metabolic architecture
Nakagin, Unplugged

Preservation efforts kick into high gear as the demolition of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower looms

exterior of a historic five and dime store in san antonio, future home of the alamo museum
Will There Be A Basement?

Once-endangered San Antonio Woolworth’s will be converted into an Alamo museum

exterior rendering of an abandoned historic home designed by martin roth
Newburgh, New Growth

Late artist Martin Roth’s plant swaddled historic Hudson Valley building is blooming once again

restored exterior of a palace building in taiz, yemen
Healing the Scars

World Monuments Fund shares conservation triumphs in Yemen’s Old City of Taiz

Exterior photo of the Marabar sculpture, split granite rocks, in a modernist courtyard
Written In Stone

Resolution reached to save MARABAR at National Geographic Society headquarters

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