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Our 2025 Annual Theme: Places of Worship

Interior view of North Shore Congregation Israel; Architect: Minoru Yamasaki

Credit

C. William Brubaker Collection, University of Illinois Chicago.

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Our 2025 Annual Theme: Places of Worship

December 19, 2024

In the media

October 11, 2023

Madame Architect profiles app Executive Director Liz Waytkus

In an article entitled "Pragmatic Preservationist: app's Liz Waytkus on Modern Architecture, Advocacy, and Natalie DeBlois," Julia Gamolina profiles app Executive Director Liz Waytkus for Madame Architect, a digital magazine and media start-up celebrating the extraordinary women that shape our world.

In the media

May 10, 2018

Atlanta Central Library threatened twice with demolition, now with insensitive intervention

Despite community pushback, plans to drill windows into the facade of the building designed by Marcel Breuer & Associates are still on the drawing board

Newsletter, Advocacy, Atlanta, Breuer, preservation, historic preservation, docomomo

In the media

April 05, 2018

A Farewell to Robert Gatje

Bob's pedagogic approach was one of gentle direction supported by a fierce insistence on the highest professional standards.

Newsletter, Obituary, docomomo

In the media

April 05, 2018

Mies' Pavilion Apartments in Newark face an uncertain future

According to the online media company, Return on Information - New Jersey, the multifamily property has sold for $70.5 million to a regional investor,The Pavilion Towers LLC.

Newsletter, Advocacy, modern, Preservation, Mies, historic preservation, modern architecture, docomomo

In the media

April 02, 2018

Reynolds Metalsseeking sympathetic owner

According to Curbed Detroit, Yamasaki's Reynolds Metals Regional Sales Office is seeking a sympathetic owner and is currently on the market for $900k.

Newsletter, Advocacy, modern, Preservation, corporate modernism, historic preservation, modern architecture, docomomo

In the media

February 08, 2018

Modern plazas under threat

Minneapolis' Peavey Plaza and New York's 140 Broadway face harmful renovationsto their original design.

Newsletter, Threatened, Advocacy

In the media

February 08, 2018

app pushes for AT&T lobby inclusion

Community Board, app and colleagues continue to advocate for building's lobby.

Newsletter, Threatened, Advocacy

In the media

January 26, 2018

This building put Arquitectonica on the global map. That won’t stop its demolition.

Miami commissioners have signed a death warrant for the Babylon, the distinctly colorful, ziggurat-shaped Brickell apartment house that was the first commercial building by homegrown design giant Arquitectonica and a landmark that helped set the stage for the city’s downtown revival.

Threatened

In the media

January 11, 2018

Demolition begins onlobby of AT&T

The exterior is calendaredto be landmarked, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved demolition of the building'slobby.

Newsletter, Threatened, Advocacy

In the media

January 11, 2018

Remembering John Portman

app is saddened bythe loss of the architect and developer who created futuristic atriums and revitalized city centers.

Newsletter, Obituary

In the media

December 28, 2017

Lawrence Halprin’s only atrium project undergoes surprise renovation

An eagle-eyed preservationist has sounded the alarm over a renovation of the atrium of the Wells Fargo Center on Bunker Hill,Los Angeles, designed by noted modernist landscape architectLawrence Halprin.

Endangered, Newsletter, Advocacy

In the media

December 14, 2017

Boston accepting bids for City Hall Plaza revamp

According to the Boston Herald, afive-year, $80 million plan to renovate City Hall and rip up the surrounding plaza is going out to bid.

Endangered, Newsletter

In the media

November 01, 2017

Will a Postmodern Icon be "Glasswashed"?

A plan by the design firm Snøhetta to remake Philip Johnson’s AT&T Building has sparked anger in the architecture world.

Threatened, Advocacy

In the media

October 12, 2017

Atlanta Central Library may still face threats

Save the Atlanta Public Library recently reported the head of the library is currently proposing to demolish the facade and put up a glass wall on Atlanta's Central Library.

Newsletter, Threatened

In the media

October 12, 2017

Proposed renovations threaten Halprin’s Freeway Park

The community-driven proposal aimed at boosting Freeway Park’s pedestrian visibility and its diversity potentially threatens the integrity of Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadjieva's design.

Newsletter, Threatened, WEWA

In the media

October 04, 2017

New LACMA structure looks to replace three original William Pereira buildings and 1986 addition by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates

Breathing fresh life into one of the city’s most ambitious cultural projects and making history as the largest gift on record toward the construction of an American museum, David Geffen has pledged $150 million to a new building for theLos Angeles County Museum of Art.



Threatened, Advocacy

In the media

September 17, 2017

Demo Sought for Remaining Shoreline Apartments

A controversial demolition proposal is returning to the Preservation Board September 21. Norstar Development USA is seeking to demolish the remaining portions of the Shoreline Apartment complex. The north end of the development was demolished to construct the affordable Niagara Square Apartments, eight new buildings with 48 units at the corner of Carolina and Niagara streets.

Endangered, Threatened, Advocacy

In the media

July 21, 2017

With push from Yo-Yo Ma, floating concert hall may end up in N.Y.

Two years ago, Chicago had a chance to add a futuristic floating concert hall designed by one of the 20th century's great architects to its renowned collection of iconic structures. The vessel could have adorned the city's downtown Riverwalk and moved up and down the branches of the Chicago River, entertaining audiences on shore.

But the chance to buy Philadelphia architect Louis Kahn's "Point Counterpoint II," which opens like a clam shell to present classical music concerts for listeners on shore, came and went with the closing of the first Chicago Architecture Biennial exhibition in 2015.

Endangered, Threatened

In the media

July 03, 2017

app reacts to proposed “reconstruction” of the Portland Building

On Monday, July 3rd, app submitted a formal letter to thePortland Historic Landmarks Commission on the proposed "reconstruction" of Michael Graves historic 1982Portland Public Service Building (Portland Building).

Endangered, Threatened, Portland Building

In the media

May 30, 2017

Philly Police Department to move into former Inquirer, Daily News building

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the Philadelphia Police Department intendsto move its headquarters into the white tower at Broad and Callowhill Streets that for decades housed the Inquirer and Daily News, jettisoning plans to move to a site in West Philadelphia that the city spent about $50 million to buy andrenovate.

The Roundhouse property, where police have been based since 1963, will be sold for redevelopment, as will the Medical Examiner’s Office on University Avenue near Civic Center Boulevard, and the Sixth District building at 11th and Vine Streets.

Endangered, Threatened, brutalism

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