A light approach to reinforcing heavy metal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Formerly the first women’s dorm on campus, Patterson Hall at the University of Kentucky has found new life as a living/ learning center, thanks to an effort led by Lord Aeck Sargent.

One of the earliest Rapp & Rapp theaters, the Al. Ringling Theater in Baraboo, WI, has been restored to its original elegance by Isthmus Architecture

The historic Cloisters gets cleaned, waterproofed and re-engineered by Walter B. Melvin Architects, LLC, of New York City.

The challenges of restoring historic decorative finishing at the Grand Lodge of Maryland Masonic Temple.

Beyer Blinder Belle deliver a lovingly researched and accurate reconstruction of the Apollo Theater’s Jazz Age façade.

Engineering firm Simpson Gumpertz & Heger's masonry restoration of the historic Ames Building in Boston required a precise approach to how the building’s structural and envelope barrier systems functioned.

The restoration and repair of the cast-iron dome on the U.S. Capitol Building has saved our nation’s most iconic structure.

A renovated savings bank in Chicago now serves as an art and community center.

Perhaps the most elegant feature in the Sherry-Netherland hotel was the 860-sq.ft. mural painted on the vaulted ceiling in the lobby by Joseph Aruta.