rada restoration/preservation stories

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  AP Lofts, Des Moines, Iowa

  This sensitive restoration revitalizes a defunct warehouse.

   
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  Schindler House on Ellis Avenue, Inglewood, Calif.

  This renovation was guided by the question: What would Schindler do?

   
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  Restoration/Renovation of and Addition to Historic Vaucluse, Machipongo, Va.

  A historic plantation house is simplified and restored.

   
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  Yachiyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

  Two 100-year-old buildings form the core of a strikingly modern new home.

   
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  Restoration of the Luis Marden House, McLean, Va.

  A lot of effort went into the restoration of this 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright home poised above the Potomac River rapids.

   
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  Record House Revisited, Owings Mills, Md.

  This project succeeds by using an elegant mix of materials that both define and weave together the new floor plan of a notable 1960s home.

   
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  Bubeshko Apartments, Los Angeles

  In restoring this two-building apartment complex by the Southern California modernist Rudolph Schindler, architect Eric Haas, AIA, drew two very lucky cards.

   
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  the spreter studio, gladwyne, pa.

  Designed in 1934 by architect William Lescaze, who is known for his work on the PSFS Building in Philadelphia, this studio was slated for demolition until a sympathetic patron came to its rescue.

   
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  marcel breuer “house in the garden” (lauck house, 1950), princeton, n.j.

  A few judicious moves reclaimed this vintage Marcel Breuer home, whose design was based on a house he exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in 1949.

   
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  four stairs: addition and renovation to a historic virginia farmhouse, great falls, va.

  Presented with a diverse collection of buildings, Barnes Vanze Architects restored the architecturally significant structures and inserted a glassed-in room to unify the house.