Architectural Preservation

PHOTOS: Beverly Hills Considers Preservation Policy To Save Kronish House

AP/ Huffington Post | By JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Kronish House, La Real Estate, Architectural Preservation, Ozzy Ozbourne, Richard Neutra, Los Angeles Conservancy, David Beckham, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- The streets of Beverly Hills are graced with homes by such 20th-century architectural luminaries as Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Pa...

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PHOTOS: Michael LaFetra's Mid-Century Mansion For Sale

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 08.11.2011

Read More: La Real Estate, Rex Lotery, Architectural Preservation, Beverly Hills Real Estate, Michael LaFetra, R. M. Schindler, Slidepollajax, Cory Weiss, Partners Trust Beverly Hills, Pierre Koenig, Los Angeles News

New to market is producer Michael LaFetra's mid-century modern mansion, with a listing price of $10.295 million. The home was designed by Rex Lotery i...

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Chicago Tears Down a Mies

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architectural Preservation, Chicago Architecture, Mies Van Der Rohe, Blair Kamin, IIT Campus, IIT Test Cell, Chicago News
Edward Lifson

This week, powers that be in Chicago will demolish a little work by Mies van der Rohe. A small part of his extraordinarily important campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology will bite the dust.

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Ferris Bueller House Tops Endangered Buildings List

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ferris Bueller Garage, Ferris Bueller Home, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Rose House, Architectural Preservation, Ferris Bueller House, Video, Ferris Bueller House for Sale, Chicago Preservation, Ferris Bueller Cameron's House, Landmarks Illinois, Historic Preservation, Chicago News

The Highland Park house made famous in Ferris Bueller's Day Off tops a list of endangered historic structures in Chicago released Wednesday by non-pro...

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Russian Building Boom Disregards Architectural Treasures: Report

GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Architectural Preservation, Russian Architecture, Foreign Affairs, Architecture, Moscow, Moscow Architecture Preservation Society, Russian Architectural Preservation, Advocacy, St. Petersburg, World News

Just steps from Lubyanka, the feared headquarters of the KGB and its post-Soviet successor, stands a building that was once home to toys and laughter....

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'Lost' Louis Sullivan Storefront Found

Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sullivan Carson Pirie Scott, Architectural Preservation, Chicago Architecture, Louis Sullivan Storefront, Lost Louis Sullivan, 22 S Wabash, Louis Sullivan, Louis Sullivan Restoration, Louis Sullivan Preservation, Chicago Landmarks, Chicago News

The legacy of Louis Sullivan, poet of the skyscraper, has taken so many hits lately that you'd think Tony Soprano had a contract to rub out the man's ...

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The Navy Vs. Modern Architecture In North Chicago

Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sears Tower, Chicago Architecture, Bruce Graham, Architectural Preservation, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Great Lakes Naval Station, Gunner's Mate School, Chicago News

The Navy tried to portray Tuesday's announcement that it will demolish a landmark of mid-century modernism co-designed by Bruce Graham, the architect ...

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Local Landmarks On Endangered Buildings List

Chicago Tribune | Steve Schmadeke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architectural Preservation, Prentice Hospital, Elgin Mental Health Center, Chicago Architecture, Endangered Buildings, Chicago Preservation, William F. Ross House, Landmarks Illinois, Castle Car Wash, Historic Preservation, Frank Lloyd Wright, Prentice Women's Hospital, Chicago News

The last intact Route 66 filling station in Chicago, an Evanston mansion where the nation's 30th vice president once lived and a one-room school house...

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