Preserving the past to anchor the future and to enrich posterity
Heckfield Place is a late eighteenth-century English manor house set in four hundred acres of Hampshire countryside. After ten years of renovation, it opened as a country hotel in 2018 to critical acclaim and was named UK Hotel of the Year by The Sunday Times.
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Morningside has won Cambridge Preservation Award twice for its restoration of historic buildings in Harvard Square in the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The City of David is the ancient and original old city of Jerusalem conquered by King David over 3,000 years ago. Morningside has been supporting the conservation work of this significant archaeological site since 2013. As excavation reaches the First Temple period layers, remnants of thousands of years of civilizations have been unearthed revealing the story of Jerusalem from ancient times to the present day. Archeological excavations are still being conducted at the site today and measures are being taken to preserve the finds and display them to the public.
Morningside participated in the founding of the China Heritage Fund in 1997, which was set up to protect and to restore historic buildings in China. Its first project, done in conjunction with the Palace Museum of Beijing, was to restore the Jian Fu Palace Garden located within the Forbidden City.
This palace was built in 1740 by the Qianlong Emperor and was burnt down in 1923. The rebuilding, with the same craftsmanship as was employed in the original palace, took five years and was completed in 2006.
In the pre-WWII years, many houses in the former French concession of Shanghai were designed in the Art Deco style by European architects. Morningside has restored a collection of such houses. To step into Morningside’s Shanghai office is to step into the Shanghai of the 1940s.
Huangshan, a city located in the province of Anhui, boasts over 2200 years of history. Its houses were built in the vernacular style of architecture with tall white walls and contrasting gray roof tiles. Morningside has preserved many of these houses.