Tag Refurbishment

Best of Livegreenblog, commercial and industrial architecture

24-08-2021

Best of Livegreenblog, commercial and industrial architecture

Being sustainable is also a prerogative for companies, so we dedicate this Best of Livegreenblog to the business world that has opted for environmentally friendly solutions in its architectural choices. We find projects involving the recovery and reuse of existing buildings, but also new constructions.

Best of Livegreenblog, places of culture

11-08-2021

Best of Livegreenblog, places of culture

Throughout the year we have often talked about architecture for culture, from large museums to tiny art galleries, castles and cultural centres. The four projects we are presenting as the best of this first part of 2021 all have a common denominator: they are works created in the pre-existing environment.

Two layers of microperforated aluminium for the façade of LDA.iMDA’s Casa Verde

06-08-2021

Two layers of microperforated aluminium for the façade of LDA.iMDA’s Casa Verde

A building designed to be light to preserve the stability of the hill on which it stands

Lagranja Design designs XAPO, a bank for cryptocurrencies

02-08-2021

Lagranja Design designs XAPO, a bank for cryptocurrencies

Multidisciplinary design studio Lagranja Design has created something truly special: the physical offices of a bank exclusively for cryptocurrencies. The challenge was to give material form to something intangible in a high-impact physical space: an old army barracks in the historic centre of Gibraltar.

Mezzo Atelier converts a former warehouse into a cultural centre

15-07-2021

Mezzo Atelier converts a former warehouse into a cultural centre

An unused space on the outskirts of Ponte Delgada, in Portugal’s Azure Islands, has been converted into vaga cultural centre, a space for art and knowledge, by Mezzo Atelier and the association Anda&Fala.

Clayton Korte’s Design Office: a conversion in Austin, Texas

13-07-2021

Clayton Korte’s Design Office: a conversion in Austin, Texas

Clayton Korte (formerly Clayton & Little) of Austin/San Antonio, Texas has converted a 1963 building to house two design studios: its own and that of the Word + Carr Design Group, a landscape architecture studio. The project incarnates Clayton Korte’s commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and fostering discourse in the design community.

A new garden for Casa Coccapani thanks to the Fondazione Iris Ceramica Group

09-07-2021

A new garden for Casa Coccapani thanks to the Fondazione Iris Ceramica Group

On June 22, the new garden of the Casa Coccapani nursery school was inaugurated. The structure’s existing green space was significantly redeveloped thanks to the programme promoted by the Fondazione Iris Ceramica Group, in collaboration with the Municipality of Fiorano Modenese. The project of ideas that creatively transformed the existing green space into a "planetary garden" was conceived by architect Bruna Sigillo, winner of "Next Landmark 2020", the international contest promoted by the Fondazione Iris Ceramica Group and by the Floornature architecture portal.

LUO Studio creates Mumokuteki Concept Bookstore in Beijing

08-07-2021

LUO Studio creates Mumokuteki Concept Bookstore in Beijing

The creative designers of LUO Studio have produced a bookshop in an unused underground space in a Beijing shopping centre. The project makes the most of the existing construction, despite the presence of utility installations and all the limitations associated with underground spaces.

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