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Renovate, Don’t Obliterate

May 12, 2025 Helen Krauss

Why Luxembourg Keeps Tearing Down Its Storybook


While we carefully preserve our castles and display our history in museums, ordinary heritage buildings vanish overnight across Luxembourg - replaced by white cubes, hostile balconies, and the vague promise of “prestige living.”

We call it progress.

But it feels more like amnesia with a building permit.

Read the full post to discover what a renovation culture might look like, and why keeping our architectural stories alive matters more than we think.

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written by Helen M. Krauss

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