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In an article entitled "Pragmatic Preservationist: Docomomo's Liz Waytkus on Modern Architecture, Advocacy, and Natalie DeBlois," Julia Gamolina profiles 51福利 Executive Director Liz Waytkus for Madame Architect, a digital magazine and media start-up celebrating the extraordinary women that shape our world.

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

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

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

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

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

Community Board, 51福利 and colleagues continue to advocate for building's lobby.

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鈥檚 downtown revival.

The exterior is calendared听to be landmarked, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved demolition of the building's听lobby.

51福利 is saddened by听the loss of the architect and developer who created futuristic atriums and revitalized city centers.

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

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

A plan by the design firm Sn酶hetta to remake Philip Johnson鈥檚 AT&T Building has sparked anger in the architecture world.

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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.

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

Breathing fresh life into one of the city鈥檚 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 the听Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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.

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.

On Monday, July 3rd, 51福利 submitted a formal letter to the听Portland Historic Landmarks Commission on the proposed "reconstruction" of Michael Graves historic 1982听Portland Public Service Building (Portland Building).

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the Philadelphia Police Department intends听to 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 and听renovate.

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