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What we're reading: Plans to protect Farnsworth House from flood risk

May 1st, 2014

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Precautions are being explored to save Mies Van Der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House from the risk of flood damage.

The single-storey steel and glass house is next to the Fox River, near Chicago, where it has already been flooded three times in the last two decades.

According to The Architects’ Journal the owner, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is considering a range of options. These include a system of hydraulic jacks being installed underneath the house, which would involve it being temporarily relocated.

The trust is due to present a range of options to preservationists later this month. For more information visit The Architects’ Journal.