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HOLMDEL - The preservation and reuse of an architectural landmark, the former Bell Labs building, is taking another step forward, with the publication of a new charrette book and a local developer's plans to convert the complex into a mixed-use community.
In January, a coalition comprising the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects and seven preservation and landscape organizations published the final report of a three-day charrette held in April 2008 to develop proposals for reusing Bell Labs, the site of numerous technological achievements in the telecommunications industry.
Bell Telephone Laboratories was designed by Eero Saarinen & Associates from 1957 to 1962,...