Sergio Sebastián, What Does the Past Tell You?
Sergio Sebastián discusses the restoration of the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sijena. How does he recreate the atmosphere without idealising a particular era?
Technische Universität Darmstadt: Günter Pfeifer, Annette Rudolph-Cleff
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Knockin' on Heavens Door
Diezinger Architekten has transformed Nuremberg's Dreieinigkeitskirche (Trinity Church) into the GoHo Cultural Church. It is not only church services, christenings, and classical concerts that happen here; metal gigs are also welcome.
Light-Catcher in the Old Town
Seen from the air, the Brusk exhibition building looks like a spaceship that has made a stopover in Bruges' Old Town. From a pedestrian's perspective, it barely stands out in the cityscape. Paul Robbrecht explains why the building was constructed at this location and how its design relates to the neighbourhood.
Up and Down Between the Hillside and the Sea
A staircase in a private garden in Genoa demonstrates just how simple grand gestures in architecture can be sometimes. Fabrizio Polimone of Caarpa on the Scala San Filippo.
The Lost Shtetl Museum in Lithuania
The Jewish Museum in Šeduva commemorates the culture of Eastern European towns before World War II. With their building, Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects from Finland reimagine the small-scale structure of one such village. Its residents were murdered in 1941 by Nazis and their local collaborators.
Friedland Museum by Dichter Architects
The Friedland transit camp on the former inter-German border remains a point of contact for asylum seekers to this day. The new building for the local museum makes the experience of crossing the border tangible in a physical sense.