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...Some 55 companies and 200 subcontractors have been working on the facelift, which has included everything from basic plumbing and glazing to specialist gilding and the restoration of the mosaics first installed...
...The 62-year-old architect is overseeing the most comprehensive renovation ever attempted at the Grand Palais....
...The renovation is a work in progress, due to be completed in 2030. Thus far, the facade, the living rooms and the stairwell are all fully finished....
...Imperfect restorations use less carbon and reduce the need for new materials, though their labour intensiveness and the need for specialist skills contributes to them being more expensive than building afresh...
...Heritage specialist Raluca Grama, 36, told me few people work in her sector, “and we all know each other”. According to Grama, aside from church restorations, state funding for other projects is slim....
...Heritage specialist Pierre-Antoine Gatier co-ordinated the complex restoration while younger local practice NeM (Lucie Niney and Thibault Marca) made it work as an exhibition space....
...The experience is thoroughly enjoyable and, as the main museum undergoes renovation, it reveals some objects in a truly accessible way....
...The renovation, which has lasted a year, aims to entice clients into an intimate, storytelling space, generating an immersive buying experience that is as cultural as it is transactional....
...and a team of 40 restoration experts in 2018....
...The agents also had good contacts with craftspeople who had worked on similar restoration projects....
...Three specialist building firms were appointed for each of the three stages: stabilising the structure, structural repairs and internal work....
...Architectural-salvage and fireplace specialists are troves for everything from clean-fronted Queen Annes to carved Italian Renaissance marbles....
...These architects will almost certainly need to team up with specialist conservation practices to carry out the complex and demanding work, which will embrace everything from design to engineering, the flow...
...Architects Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge alongside Newman Architects of New Haven have done a wonderfully meticulous job of renovations....
...Explaining the renovation of his Wonders of Wildlife National Museum in Springfield, he told a local newspaper this year: “The country’s becoming more urbanised....
...The National Heritage Training Group sees an excellent recruiting opportunity in one of the biggest heritage projects of them all: the forthcoming restoration of the Palace of Westminster....
...Srirangam was under renovation, the day we were there....
...Erdogan’s 2005 announcement of the renovation of the church came the day after a summit in which Armenia demanded that Turkey recognise that the killings amounted to genocide....
...Unsurprisingly, management of the hotel has been contracted out to a specialist company, ICMI, which looks after seven other properties in Scotland including Inverlochy Castle....
...But he is channelling cash earned from asset sales into carefully planned renovations of the French hypermarkets....
...The total rise of 19.4 per cent was also supported by the restoration of BP’s dividend payments, with Capita estimating that underlying dividend growth was 12.8 per cent....
...Forman’s restoration took two years and ran to $400,000, requiring the couple to rent while they waited....
...Eco-renovations can also prove effective when people are prepared to take a traditional approach....
...So far, the supply of ruined buildings for renovation far outstrips demand....
...Badly needed renovations have been delayed by outdated laws, low investment and a painful lack of liquidity in the property market, according to local real estate agents....
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