Tag Refurbishment

30-12-2020

The Best of Livegreenblog 2020: Restoration and conversion

Restoring existing buildings as a sustainable modus operandi occupies a lot of our reportage. With the end of the year upon us, we’ve decided to take a look at our fave restoration and conversion projects that we presented in 2020.

25-12-2020

Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin visible in its revamped charm

Berliners have been gifted a lovely end-of-year surprise. The Neue Nationalgalerie, first designed by Mies van der Rohe, is slated to reopen to the general public in August 2021 after years of restoration work by David Chipperfield Architects, and the swathes of fabric protecting this icon of modern architecture have finally been removed.

17-12-2020

La Cabina de la Curiosidad for an original house

It’s intriguing how the name of the project by young architects Marie Combette and Daniel Moreno Flores in Ecuador, La Cueva della Mini Bestia, which translates as The Cave of the Tiny Beast, riffs off the name of their studio. The project involves restoring, or rather building, a small house in Quito for a couple and their dog.

16-12-2020

Power Plant Forest, planting forests to fight pollution

The Power Plant Forest initiative in the city of Jounieh, 20 km north of Beirut in Lebanon, driven by the architecture firm theOtherDada, aims to fight the air pollution in the area around the Zouk Mosbeh power plant. The people involved are doing this by planting a forest on a highly visible site as a sign of change.

26-11-2020

The Mountain View by Onexn Architects, smart refurbishment in Shenzhen

Onexn Architects’ refurbishment of a strategically-located run-down old building in the metropolis of Shenzhen proves that creative renovation can generate sustainable and visually appealing design solutions.

19-11-2020

Kirsten Schwalgien, award-winning interior in a historical setting in Barcelona

German interior designer Kirsten Schwalgien has transformed the ground floor of listed local gem Casa Burés—one of the best examples of Modernist architecture in Barcelona’s Eixample district and designed in 1905 by Francesc Berenguer—into a state-of-the-art residential loft. The LoftBuresQ project also won the German Design Award.

13-11-2020

Past and future in the present, Vanke Nantou Gallery by Various Associates

The Chinese studio, Various Associates, has designed the interiors of a refurbishment project in the district of Nantou, Shenzhen, an exhibition gallery of urban memory. The venue tells the story of the past, present and future of the current transformation taking place in what used to be the heart of the Shenzhen metropolis.

03-11-2020

Federico Delrosso Villa Alce in Biella: contemporary spaces surrounded by greenery

On the hills outside Biella, Italy, architect Federico Delrosso planned the renovation of a family home built about fifty years ago to plans by architect Boffa Ballaran. The new project features contemporary spaces profoundly linked with the outdoors: a 10,000 square metre park with luxuriant vegetation, including tall trees, the sporting facilities and the distant hills.