#restoration

#restoration

It was love at first sight.More than 10 years ago, Andre Demesmaeker, an architect for the Belgium government, was asked to investigate a ceiling collapse at the Palace of Justice, a 19th-century behemoth in the heart of Brussels that houses the country's sprawling judiciary system and has been falling apart for decades.

A long-neglected and formerly ornate wood-frame apartment house on Greenpoint's Calyer Street will get a facade update that aims to bring back some of the structure's former historical details, but has left some preservationists wanting more.At a meeting Tuesday, Landmarks Preservation Commission commissioners unanimously approved the facade replacement of the four-story multi-family at 150 Calyer Street, but gave the condition that the architects, IMC Architecture, must work through final details with LPC staff.

Cast-bronze furniture by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye has gone on show at a new Carpenters Workshop Gallery outpost in west London.The Adjaye Associates founder has created eight limited-edition designs that combine both immaculately polished and highly textured bronze surfaces.The collection, called Yaawa, is the first to launch at a huge new venue that collectable-design specialist Carpenters Workshop Gallery has opened in Ladbroke Grove.

The award-winning Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Island of Hawaii's Kohala Coast has partnered with Honolulu's Bishop Museum on a million-dollar art restoration and stabilization project to preserve the resort's celebrated Rockefeller Art Collection.Spanning hundreds of pieces ranging from sculptures and antique furniture to native Hawaiian kapa cloth and quilts, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel's art collection is considered one of the first hotels to introduce a museum-worthy gallery in the United States.

A flagship law to restore nature across Europe must be agreed by member states or risk sending a dangerous, negative signal to the world, the EU's environment commissioner has warned, amid growing opposition to the legislation.Last June, the European Commission revealed proposals for legally binding targets for all member states to restore wildlife on land, rivers and the sea.

The crowning of the King and Queen Consort will draw on the long and rich history of the Crown Jewels and coronations but it will also do away with some traditions, a royal historian has said.On Saturday, the eyes of the world will be on Westminster Abbey as Charles and Camilla take part in the coronation ceremony, which will feature a number of the nation's most precious treasures, including St Edward's Crown, the Robe Royal and the Sovereign's Orb.

Carpenters at the Ateliers Perrault finalize the practice assembly of the charpente, or roof framework of the choir the part of the cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and choir on May 25.It extends nearly 50 feet long by 33 feet high.Cristina Baussan for NPR SAINT-LAURENT-DE-LA-PLAINE, France The wooden structure supporting the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral was so vast, it was known as "the forest."

Artist Nekisha Durrett's "Queen City" is a permanent sculpture in Arlington's new Metropolitan Park.(Luke Walter/For Freedoms)The brick tower rises out of the earth, like a deep well uprooted from its grounds.Within a landscape being reshaped by technology and progress, the brick tower stands as a reservoir for public memory, a symbol of a near-forgotten past.

The worker stabbed the loamy soil with a hoe dag, dropped in a delicate sequoia seedling and tamped the dirt tight around it.As he moved on to the next spot, and then the next, the hillside of the Alder Creek Grove slowly filled with small clumps of green needles.Without this planting, naturalists worry giant sequoias will never grow on this charred hillside again.

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A California tribe has signed agreements with state and federal agencies to work together on efforts to return endangered Chinook salmon to their traditional spawning areas upstream of Shasta Dam, a deal that could advance the long-standing goal of tribal leaders to reintroduce fish that were transplanted from California to New Zealand more than a century ago and still thrive there.

The UK and Irish governments must act together to ensure the DUP does not head off on its summer holidays with Stormont powersharing still in limbo, a former Sinn Fein minister has warned.Conor Murphy was commenting after meeting with Irish deputy premier Micheal Martin in Belfast.The DUP is blocking the devolved institutions in Belfast in protest at post-Brexit trading arrangements, and the party has insisted it will not return to Stormont until it secures further legislative assurances from the UK Government around sovereignty and trade.

The people of Northern Ireland have sent a clear message that they want powersharing back up and running, the Taoiseach has said.Commenting after last week's local elections in the region, Leo Varadkar told the Dail that he and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak would do all they could to help restore the devolved institutions in Belfast.

Thousands of people across the island of Guam remained without power, water and cellphone service on Friday, more than a week after the U.S. territory was pummeled by the strongest typhoon in at least two decades, which flooded homes, downed coconut and mango trees, and disrupted basic services.Losing water has been the hardest part, said Melinda Sanchez, 50, whose family lives in central Guam.

The beloved Lefferts Historic House reopened in Prospect Park, as city green space stewards held a ribbon cutting over the weekend for the restored 18th century farmhouse museum.The reopening came after the museum, jointly operated by the Prospect Park Alliance and the Historic House Trust, underwent a $2.5 million renovation project to reinvigorate the institution near Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Park.

About 200 residents of a west-end Toronto high rise have decided to stop paying rent in protest of above-guideline rent increases at their building, says their tenant association.Beverley Henry, who has lived at 33 King St. for close to a decade, is one of the tenants involved.She says by September, her rent could be 40 per cent higher than it was when she moved into the building near Lawrence Avenue West and Weston Road.

British studio Haworth Tompkins and Swedish firm White Arkitekter have given the 19th-century Hippodromen theatre in Sweden a contemporary update that draws attention to its original circus design.The Malmö theatre, known locally as Hipp, was designed by Theodor Wåhlin in 1898 and had undergone multiple conversions since its original use as a circus.

There are many lessons still to learn from the pandemic, but there is no mystery about Boris Johnson's conduct.He broke the rules of lockdown and lied about it.The exposure of his behaviour drained public support away from him and his party.Those facts are not altered by news that fresh allegations relating to the use of the prime ministerial country retreat at Chequers have been reported to police.

The ongoing wave of public sector strikes, some of which could continue into the autumn, has been motivated by two main factors.One the most immediate is the spike in inflation and the cost of living crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine.For workforces which had already endured a steady erosion of pay and living standards for over a decade, this amounted to a blow upon the bruise inflicted by austerity.

Sinn Fein remains on course to become the largest party in councils in Northern Ireland as counting continues in the local government elections.As the count stretched into a second day, the republican party had 122 elected councillors at lunchtime, with gains achieved across the region.The DUP has 104 council seats, the Alliance Party 46, the Ulster Unionists 44 and the SDLP 29, with 22 others.

The restoration of this moody must-see chiller from 1990, which premiered at the Berlinale, opens in New York City on April 21.György Fehér may be best known as a producer on Béla Tarr classic "Sátántangó" and as a collaborator on Tarr's "Werckmeister Harmonies."

Apple has issued a bushel of security updates and warned that three of the flaws it's fixed are under active attack.The three are CVE-2023-32409, CVE-2023-28204, and CVE-2023-32373, all of which impact the WebKit browser engine that Apple champions and employs in its Safari browser - and demands be used by other browsers on iOS.

Almost 300,000 New Yorkers experiencing food insecurity fed for a day and 2,306 metric tonnes of carbon sequestered from the atmosphere through the restoration of mangrove forests and seagrass meadows.That's just some of the social and environmental impact purpose-led ad platform Good-Loop has had - just by getting people to watch online ads.

"Fahrenheit 451″ is fiction, but America's dangerous dalliance with censorship reminiscent of Ray Bradbury's novel is becoming increasingly precarious.The Chicago-based American Library Association reports that attempts to ban books across the country nearly doubled in 2022 compared with the previous year.

Researchers at the Politecnico di Milan in Italy examined mysterious black stains on a folio of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus and confirmed the presence of starch and vinyl glues in the affected areas.The glues were most likely applied during an earlier restoration effort some 50 years ago, according to a recent paper published in the journal Scientific Reports.