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interior photograph of a corporate headquarters
This Brutal World

Public opinion has softened its views on Brutalism. That isn’t enough to stay the wrecking ball.

Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Booth Cottage in Glencoe, Illinois
Safe at Last

Frank Lloyd Wright’s demolition-threatened Booth Cottage finds a new home

Jesse Lee Home for Children, Seward
A Preservation Battle on the Last Frontier

Officials in Seward, Alaska, OK demolition of birthplace of the state flag

excelsior club in charlotte
Onwards and upwards

‘Dream team’ sought by developer to revamp historic Black social club in North Carolina

15-19 Beekman in NYC, the vanderbilt
Vanderrazed?

The clock is ticking for historic McKim, Mead & White office tower in Lower Manhattan

a bank building in pasadena california
Finally Fenestrated

Mystery-shrouded Pasadena Bank of America building to get new owner, windows

Image of Harvard Hall on axis with the entrance
How Do You Like Dem Apples?

Bruner/Cott & Associates deploy craftsmanship and historical research to restore Harvard Hall

historic home on a hill
All Hail the Queen

Virginia Savage McAlester, preservationist and best-selling author, dies at 76

A Richard Neutra-designed apartment block
Remaining Neutra

The future of Richard Neutra’s first U.S. building remains uncertain

an elephant shaped building
Life Finds a Way

New Jersey’s most famous work of novelty architecture is now on Airbnb

white building with artwork on the side
FELL IN LOVELL

Lovell Health House hosts temporary art exhibition of Eva Claessens’s artwork

Black-and-white photograph of a stark white theater with a sign that reads Kalita Humphreys Theater
You Must Remember This

Diller Scofidio + Renfro tapped to restore Frank Lloyd Wright-designed theater in Dallas

A stretch of Broadway Street with multiple signs and people walking on the sidewalk
BRINGING BACK WALKING

Downtown Los Angeles’s Broadway Street may soon go car-free

Exterior of a white boxy building, the Lovell House, in California
Out of Shape Health House

Owners of Richard Neutra’s Lovell House are seeking a preservation-minded buyer

Image of inside Notre Dame cathedral with candle lit vaults and columns
Vaulting Renovation

Notre Dame Cathedral’s vaulted ceiling still under risk of imminent collapse

Inverted image of LACMA building shot with camera obscura
Camera Shy

Vera Lutter to present camera obscura photos of LACMA before demolition

A modern, flat roofed house made of concrete sits embedded in green landscape
Currying Favor

Currier Museum of Art acquires a second Frank Lloyd Wright home

Aerial rendering of a floor clad in
Second time around

French researcher “quarries” on site for a new type of recycling and restoration

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