Revitalization in Your Cities

[erbse]

Everyone, please read, important notice:
This thread is intended to be moved to our great fresh Urban Renewal and Redevelopment forum.

Please go to this new subforum and bring it to life!

You could easily create threads like "WARSAW | Urban Renewal News" or "SPAIN | Urban Squares & Parks Revitalization News" and so on. Feel free to create specific threads for all kinds of renewal projects. It'll get a lot of attention there soon, since it's an index page forum

Since we're not only talking about European classic architecture here, but also urban traffic modernizations, street furniture, designs of squares and parks, cultural aspects, riverfront redevelopments, etc... In short: This thread is about urban renewal and revitalization.

[wloclawianin]

Wloclawek.

Bishops Palace



Diocesan museum

[Urbanista1]

nice

[tanosmile]

revitalization of some building in Palermo

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Chiesa della Martorana, one of the ancient churches in Palermo, built in 1143
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Palazzo Gresco, before





after (the groung floor i still work in progress)







Palazzo Frangipani, before, stil damaged from the IIWW



after (the groung floor i still work in progress)

[Futtock]

Nice to Sicily in on the restoration action, terrific stuff

[ThatOneGuy]

Don't know if this was posted:

Originally Posted by BiH-x

After years of war damage and neglect, many of Sarajevo's old historical buildings are being revitalized:

Marshall Tito' street















Kulin Ban Riverfront:

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During and after reconstruction:











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Synagogue

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Hotels in Ilidza











Medresa

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Various other reconstructions:







Photos by Beca, mirza-sm and Mimar

Hotel Bristol revitalization, Sarajevo
Before war


After war

After renovation

[Rombi]

yeaah I was this September in Sarajevo and I was shocked how in well condition city is now. It's really hard to notice any serious damages. It's kept very well. I liked the Museum of Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand despite it's rather small one.

[Slartibartfas]

Splendid. Now some new pavements and maybe a pedestrian boulevard along the river and Sarajevo's center would look breathtaking.

[rychlik]

Lubiaz Abbey in Lower Silesia, Poland.
The abbey, established in 1175, is one of the largest Christian architectural complexes in the world (biggest in Europe). Since 1989, the abbey has been under renovation, mostly through donation money. This is world class craftsmanship.


































The roof has been done already.





Click on this: http://www.zieba.wroclaw.pl/lubiaz_qtvr_main.html

[Ulpia-Serdica]

This is an awesome building.

[Ulpia-Serdica]

Originally Posted by Douly

L’Opéra de Marseille, known today as the Opéra Municipal, is an opera company located in Marseille, France. In 1685, the city was the second in France after Bordeaux to have an opera house which was erected on a tennis court.
Some years following the installation of electricity, in November 1919 a fire destroyed the eighteenth century theatre, leaving only its shell and an exterior stone colonnade.

The present day opera house, the Opéra Municipal de Marseille, dates from its opening on 4 December 1924. It seats 1,800. It features a classic urn-shaped auditorium, three rings of boxes, two balconies and a gallery. A large sculpted frieze by sculptor Antoine Bourdelle frames the stage.

Designed by the three architects Ebrard, Castel, and Raymond, the theatre preserved the stone colonnade and, located the surviving original box office in the centre of the entrance hall, up from which led two staircases to the elegant main foyer. Beauvert describes it as "an Art Deco temple", the "soul mate" of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.
It is nowadays the second biggest Art Deco Opera house in the world at the Opera of Mexico City.


Before renovations:

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After:

image hosted on flickr

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[Slartibartfas]

Lubiaz Abbey is truly splendid. Do you know when renovation is expected to be largely finished? Or when at least the exterior will be restored again?

Nonetheless, I seriously doubt that this is the largest "Christian architectural complex" in Europe.

[seba65536]

Originally Posted by Slartibartfas

Lubiaz Abbey is truly splendid. Do you know when renovation is expected to be largely finished? Or when at least the exterior will be restored again?

Nonetheless, I seriously doubt that this is the largest "Christian architectural complex" in Europe.

I think even in Poland there are larger Christian architectural complexes, like Jasna Góra sanctuary, or (ugly as hell) Licheń.

[Batavier]

Great to see that Sarajevo is being rebuild so well, it looks magnificent

[Kingofthehill]

Great to see Sarajevo getting some love! There's alot worth saving down there.

[rychlik]

Originally Posted by Slartibartfas

Lubiaz Abbey is truly splendid. Do you know when renovation is expected to be largely finished? Or when at least the exterior will be restored again?

Nonetheless, I seriously doubt that this is the largest "Christian architectural complex" in Europe.

According to Wikipedia it is one of the largest

Work continues on this building but it is funded through donations. It will be many years before it's all done. The roof has been restored.

Anyways, it has become a significant tourist destination. Each year in early June, Festival of alternative culture takes place here.

[Ulpia-Serdica]

Originally Posted by cochise75

Movie theater Le Louxor renovation:

Built in 1921, abandoned in 1988, reopening: spring 2013.

Le Louxor, 1922:






Le Louxor, 1930:


Today:


Renovation project:










Building site:









Pictures from this website: http://pumain.fr/cinema_le_louxor_978.htm

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[Union.SLO]

Wow, amazing!

[rychlik]

get rid of this spam

[Urbanista1]

everyone deserves a pat on the back for amazing restorations this year, especially Sarajevo. Bravo!