A light approach to reinforcing heavy metal.

Janice Parker’s thoughtful revival of an Ellen Biddle Shipman landscape in Connecticut.

A French Renaissance-style building in New York is carefully restored by PBDW Architects.

JCJ Architecture restores the 1914 New Haven County Courthouse.

An 1853 clock tower for a Kentucky courthouse is replicated by Campbellsville Industries.

Hartman-Cox Architects designs the new John A. Campbell Courthouse, which has reigned as the highest seat of justice in Mobile, Alabama, since 1934.

Ziger|Snead Architects transforms the historic A. Hoen Lithograph Company buildings in East Baltimore for modern use.

GTM Architects custom tailors an 1800s knitting mill to house a software developer’s headquarters, among other tenants.

Rambusch Decorating Co. creates the Trinity Dome mosaic at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

MacDonald & Mack Architects preserves Christ Church Lutheran, a National Historic Landmark and modernist icon designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen.

Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral by O’Brien & Keane is a prominent example of traditional Catholic church architecture.

Voith & Mactavish Architects creates a new dining hall for students at Millbrook School in New York.

KWK Architects designs the new Residential Colleges at University of Oklahoma.

The Trustees of Reservations strives to preserve historic gardens in Massachusetts.

The Sagamore Pendry, a 1914 Beaux Arts building, and its historic pier are restored and given new life as a luxury hotel on the Baltimore waterfront, thanks to Beatty Harvey Coco Architects.

Lord Aeck Sargent meticulously restores Georgia's State Capitol to its original luster.

Anderson Hallas Architects and Spectrum General Contractors working with a team of craftspeople in a design/build project restored the historic Senate and House chambers at the Denver Capitol to their original grandeur.

HGA Architects and Engineers and Schooley Caldwell Associates renovate the Minnesota State Capitol.

Citrus Square in Sarasota, FL, follows a New Urbanist master plan and features a series of six façades to create the illusion of multiple buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple has been restored and is now ready to serve the community again, thanks to a four-year, $25-million project led by Harboe Architects.

When a tornado destroyed St. Joseph Catholic Church in Ridgway, IL, four parishes combined to create St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church, and they turned to Cram and Ferguson to design the new building.

Working with Clark Architects, McCrery Architects led the design for the new Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and Newman Center in Lincoln, NE.

Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, had fallen into disrepair. It has now been restored by John G. Waite Associates.

A look at the process behind restoring the historic metal facades in two building restoration projects in Illinois.