Tag Recovery/restoration

14-10-2020

gmp plans a refurbishment project in central Hamburg: Alter Wall 2-32

The Alter Wall 2-32 renovation project by gmp von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects brings new life to central Hamburg. Historic buildings have been renovated to give the city new spaces and pedestrian zones, while uncovering and revealing architectural elements that had been hidden as the buildings were changed over the years.

13-02-2019

Trumpf Smart Factory by Barkow Leibinger, 2019 AIA Awards

The Trumpf Smart Factory in Chicago by Berlin-based firm Barkow Leibinger showcases the machines needed for the industrial process as much as the architecture itself, occupying the land of an abandoned office campus.

02-11-2018

Belzberg Architects’ new slumped glass façade for the Gores Group HQ in California

Renovation of a late twentieth-century building, giving it new life with slumped glass panels and a new green roof

16-08-2018

The Austrian studio smartvoll and the Loft Panzerhalle in Salzburg

An example of a perfectly executed urban renaissance by the Austrian architecture studio smartvoll, on the site of an old armoury in Salzburg, Austria is the 2018 AZ Awards Winner for Residential Interiors.

26-07-2018

Al Borde and Taller General, a dining room in Guadurnal, Ecuador

The project in Guadurnal, Ecuador by the architects from Al Borde and Taller General implements the reuse of materials and existing buildings to create a new space for the local community, which suffered huge losses in the April 2016 earthquake.

27-04-2018

Vector Architects: Alila Yangshuo hotel in Yangshuo, China

Alila Yangshuo is a disused sugar mill in Yangshuo, on the Li River in China, which Vector Architects have converted into a hotel complex. Chinese studio Vector Architects appropriated the spirit of the place to transform it into a picturesque scenario.

09-03-2018

Apartments in a grain silo with a galvanised steel façade, by Cobe architects

An old grain silo in the port of Copenhagen is given a completely new face, becoming an Expressionist apartment building with a galvanised steel façade

26-01-2018

A renovated distillery becomes OMA Rem Koolhaas’s Fondazione Prada in Milan

Fondazione Prada brings new life to an early twentieth-century distillery in Milan, revitalising an entire neighbourhood in the Porta Romana area

13-12-2017

Lombardini22: restyling of Sarca shopping centre in Milan

Lombardini22 has come up with a restyling project for Centro Sarca, a shopping centre built under the urban regeneration policy for abandoned industrial areas north of the city of Milan. Lombardini22 transformed the look of Centro Sarca both outside and inside, with a special focus on graphics.