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Developer Bulldozes Frank Lloyd Wright Building as Preservationists Rushed to Save It

by Claire Voon January 17, 2018

The demolition, which occurred overnight on January 10, came as a shock to preservation groups who had been working to save the building.

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Sites in Tucson, Milwaukee, and SF Make List of America’s Most Endangered Places in 2016

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 6, 2016October 6, 2016

The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces its 2016 list of America’s Most Endangered Places.

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An Icon of Midcentury Organic Modern Architecture Is Destroyed

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 11, 2016May 11, 2016

A spiraling 1955 house that was considered one of the icons of 20th-century organic modernism has been destroyed.

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A Noguchi Ceiling in a U-Haul Showroom Is Restored to Its Former Glory

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 5, 2016May 7, 2016

In the 1940s, artist Isamu Noguchi experimented with a series of “lunar landscapes,” embedding lights in undulating magnesite cement. While some were freestanding sculptures, three were site-specific pieces installed in two buildings and a boat. This month, the only one of these architectural projects to survive was revealed in a U-Haul store in St. Louis, Missouri.

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As Met Breuer Opens, Two of the Architect’s Buildings Face an Uncertain Fate

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 24, 2016March 31, 2016

Prominence of name has never guaranteed the preservation of architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Park Avenue Showroom was demolished in 2013 just blocks from his iconic Guggenheim Museum, Louis Kahn’s Philadelphia commercial storefront was torn down in 2014, just a couple of years after the grand unveiling of his Four Freedoms Park in New York.

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Kaleidoscopic Interior by Pritzker Prize–Winning Architect Faces Demolition in NYC

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 20, 2016January 27, 2016

Since opening in 1976, 1 United Nations Plaza has been an experience like tumbling into a hall of mirrors.

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Preserving the Concrete Listening Ears of Early Surveillance

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 9, 2015July 12, 2015

Prior to the invention of radar in the 1930s, a system of concrete acoustic mirrors was set up around the coast of the United Kingdom as an early form of surveillance.

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South Street Seaport Added to List of Most Endangered Sites in the US

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 24, 2015June 24, 2015

The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its 11 Most Endangered Historic Places today, including sites across the United States threatened by development, demolition, or decay.

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50 Years of Fighting to Save New York City’s Historic Architecture

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 3, 2015September 13, 2015

The obliteration of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station in 1963, just a half-century after its completion, helped galvanize grassroots preservation efforts that eventually led to New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner signing the Landmarks Law on April 19, 1965.

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The Vanishing of America’s Historic Mental Asylums

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 6, 2015May 7, 2015

Between 1848 and 1890, dozens of grand mental asylums were built around the United States under the Kirkbride Plan, designed by Thomas Story Kirkbride.

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Paris Pledges €80 Million to Fix Historic Buildings, but Much More Is Needed

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 22, 2015

The city of Paris will spend €80 million (~$85.9 million) over the next five years fixing up and restoring the 96 historic buildings it is responsible for maintaining.

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Reviving the Fight to Save a British Brutalist Masterpiece

by Laura C. Mallonee March 23, 2015March 23, 2015

At the 11th hour, a British heritage organization has renewed a bid to save a major Brutalist building from destruction.

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