From the bold to the sentimental, the flashy to the quaint, why these restorations are worth knowing about.
From the bold to the sentimental, the flashy to the quaint, professor of architecture and host of Restoration Australia , Anthony Burke , has seen his fair share of restoration projects.
"We're talking about going out into the French countryside and talking to people who want to donate 300 400-year-old trees, oak trees, to create the same rafters.Burke says one of his other recent favourite restorations is the work done on the Great Cobar Museum in central New South Wales, a roughly eight-hour drive west of Sydney.
"The reason this has got my attention … was, yes, it's a beautiful piece of work … but as a regional project there's nothing kind of super conspicuous about it from the outset," Burke says."There's one of these in every regional town, you know, there's that post office, or that bank or that pub, that everyone knows.
For Burke, the Great Cobar Museum is also a good demonstration of architects valuing history over the allure of trying something new or fresh. "They actually just said, 'No, let's not do that. Let's work with what we've got.' and for all the right principles of not just adaptive reuse, but also working sustainably with what we have."Returning to Europe, the restoration of Berlin's New National Gallery, which was completed in 2021, is another stand-out.
The restoration involved dismantling around 35,000 different building components, restoring or repairing them as well as the actual building, and then painstakingly replacing them one by one.Anthony Burke follows the progress and pitfalls of single-minded restoration enthusiasts who stop at almost nothing to revitalise their beloved buildings.
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