Conversion, refurbishment, extension and roof extension: projects and technical articles on building on from what is already there.
In their restoration of the Monastery of Santa María of Sijena, Pemán y Franco and Sebastián preserve traces of destruction, rebuilding, and decay spanning 800 years. Recently, they remodelled the east and north wings into an exhibition space for the convent’s valuable artworks.
Herzog & de Meuron has extended the Mandarin Oriental restaurant on Lake Como. Using local materials plus a new lighting and colour scheme, they draw attention to the surrounding landscape.
In 1980, Jean Nouvel's Collège Anne Frank in the south of Paris reduced the state-mandated model for industrialised school buildings to the level of farce. Mars Architectes has now renovated the dilapidated building and helped to give new relevance to this architectural provocation.
„The Well-Tempered House" aims to answer critical questions on sufficiency in residential construction. An interview with Elli Mosayebi of EMI Architects.
Existing conditions are challenging. Churches are places with a specific history and a strong identity. Reusing and rededicating such structures requires tact, sensitivity, courage, and a reasonable budget.
The community centre "The Felix", which houses an elementary school, a police station, a civic office, a library, and a music academy, has quickly become the central gathering place in the Gentbrugge district of Ghent. Bram Aerts of Atama discusses the challenges of the design process.
In the Flemish city of Hasselt, the Belgian-British partnership of Bovenbouw and David Kohn Architects converted a former beguinage for a faculty of architecture, turning architectural history to new ends.
In the Flemish city of Hasselt, the Belgian-British partnership of Bovenbouw and David Kohn Architects converted a former beguinage for a faculty of architecture, turning architectural history to new ends.
The exposed concrete surfaces in the interior underscore the industrial character of the solid construction.
The solid existing construction supports climate control and the related building services are concealed by a hand-moulded brick shell.
In our interview, Elli Mosayebi, Swiss architect and professor at ETH Zurich, explains why experimental concepts for sufficiency-driven indoor climate can be applied to conventional housing types.
A curved hyperbolic concrete facade defines the new immersive museum in Adorf. The construction and its cascading water film combine geometric precision with atmospheric appeal and refer to the habitat of freshwater pearl mussels.