For its new "West" campus at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, prestigious Pittsburgh-based college Carnegie Mellon put on a fresh face, and embraced a challenge. The university agreed to take buildings on the register of the State Historic Preservation Office, and turn them into functioning academic centers.

Heading up the project was Architectural Resources Group (ARG) of San Francisco -- a company well known for its preservation work including the restoration of the Flower Conservatory at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

The designs were historically referenced, with key details that look to the past with a fresh eye, and a number of mid-century touches.

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