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| Source: Emre Arolat Architects archdaily.com |
Santral Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Arts, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007 designed by Emre Arolat Architects
Bilgi University offered to carry out the renovation and transformation of the Silahtarağa Power Plant into a museum and recreation and educational center; this typical modern industrial installation constructed between the 1910s and 1950s occupies a 107,000-m2 lot forming a sort of peninsula between the Alibeyköy and Kağıthane creeks right where the Golden Horn ends. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Hufton + Crow archdaily.com |
Stanislavsky Factory, Moscow, Russia, 2009 designed by John McAslan + Partners
The scheme has attracted widespread acclaim and is recognised as setting a new benchmark for innovative, adaptive re-use of historic buildings in Moscow. Sensitively linking refurbished historic elements and new interventions, the Stanislavsky Factory has become a new cultural destination for Moscow. The redevelopment of this site has, from the outset, been considered as both an architectural and urban landscape scheme. The project’s fully integrated landscaping – also designed by the practice – seamlessly links the constituent elements, unifying the development as a whole. By physically and visually integrating the landscape with the architectural elements, the practice has created a socially permeable site – a completely new concept in Moscow, where the majority of developments are gated. -- ArchDaily
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School of Architecture, Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, CCNY, New York City, New York, USA, 2010 designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects
The firm explored a variety of relocation sites and renovation options before determining that overhauling an existing structure – a five-storey, modernist glass-block building designed and constructed as a library in the late 1950’s – would be most conducive to the college’s needs. RVA gut-renovated the poorly maintained building, preserving only the structure of reinforced concrete columns and floor slabs. -- Top Box Design
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| Source: Toni Gironès archdaily.com |
Reforma y Rehabilitación de la Nave Industrial Can Minguell, Barcelona, Spain, 2010 designed by Toni Gironès
The Mataró Council moves to provide the city with a new mixed-use space (public/private), for both collective activities (workshops, exhibitions, etc…) and offices. The intervention is performed in the main hall of the Can Minguell’s factory complex (1850). -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Alonso y Balaguer archdaily.com |
Las Arenas, Barcelona, Spain, 2011 designed by Richard Rogers + Alonso y Balaguer
In spite of the fact that the former bullring, in disuse since 1989 and with a neo-mudéjar style, didn’t actually have high architectural value, it was clear that, being poised in such an impressive location for more than a century, this site was really in the minds of every citizen, and its symbolic value lead to a suitable preservation. That’s why the architectural answer, already from the first outlines, was orientated towards its maintenance as a second skin of the new building. Nevertheless, such preservation met great technical complexity: first, an evident physical deterioration; second, a strange height, four meters above the nearby streets. The technical effort was worth it, in the end to present a strong, atypical cylindrical form. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Marc Cramer archdaily.com |
Saint Roch-de-l’Achigan City Hall, 7 Rue Doctor Wilfrid Locat North, Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Quebec, QC J0K 3H0, Canada, 2012 designed by Affleck de la Riva architects
Located in the village center, the old convent is a building of important heritage value, a symbol of community and a source of pride for Saint Roch residents. The recycling of this historic structure as the city hall and municipal offices re-establishes its presence at the center of community life. The project creates a dialogue between the restored heritage building and a contemporary addition housing a new entry lobby, an elevator and a generously glazed stair-tower. Creating a new entry on the lateral street is part of an overall site strategy that relocates parking to the back of the building and frees up the front of the site for a new formal garden. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Hugo Carvalho Araújo archdaily.com |
GNRation, Braga, Portugal, 2013 designed by Atelier Carvalho Araújo
The intervention in the former building of the GNR (military police) brings together all the concept of dynamism of Braga European Youth Capital 2012. The project uses the concept of occupation as motif. The occupation by man and nature. It explores the boundary between an abandoned existing structure and a new invasor construction who takes over the space. A space in constant regeneration, rather than a final object. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Mito Covarrubias archdaily.com |
La Planta, Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, JAL, Mexico, 2013 designed by Agraz Architects SC
Where there was once decomposed organic matter, now there is art, sports and leisure. It is the conversion of a sewage treatment plant into a multidisciplinary center. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Alfonso Quiroga archdaily.com |
Daoíz y Velarde Cultural Centre, Calle Alberche, Venturada, Madrid, Spain, 2013 designed by Rafael De La-Hoz
From the start, the idea was to respect the basic geometry of the existing building, as well as its saw-tooth metal structure and the brick-built façade. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Aaron Pocock archdaily.com |
National Design Centre, Singapore, 2013 designed by SCDA Architects
....to create big public spaces – the internal courtyard and an external courtyard. The indoor court we enclosed with a sculptural skylight. That was the beginning of it – two communal spaces that all the other spaces would focus upon. Once this principle was established, we needed to be very clear about what we added. This is a conservation building. Whatever we added were just key functional elements, such as the required fire stair. We turned that into a design element. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Stéphane Chalmeau archdaily.com |
Business Incubator, 67 Rue du Canal, Pont-Audemer, France, 2013 designed by h2o architectes
It was conceived of as a space capable of facilitating exchanges between the different young emerging companies. The generous circulation space includes a « street » (the central corridor) and a « square » (where can be found the building’s central staircase) ; these functional spaces become lively meeting places, beyond the strict professional context. A large roof lighting recalls the function of « passageways » in the 19th century town or covered public spaces. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Nic Lehoux archdaily.com |
EGWW, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2013 designed by SERA Architects + Cutler Anderson Architect
The Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt (EGWW) Federal Building is an existing 18-story, 512,474 sf office tower located in downtown Portland. Completed in 1974, the building’s MEP systems were worn out and out-dated. In addition to upgrading building systems, updating the work environment and improving accessibility, the design also needed to meet the stringent energy and water conservation requirements of recent executive orders.
With a unique facade of “reeds” that support plant growth and provide a native ecosystem, shades tuned for each facade to reduce solar gain, and a roof canopy that supports a180 kW photovoltaic array while collecting rainwater – the project pushed design boundaries. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti archdaily.com |
Federal Criminal Court, Bellinzona, Switzerland, 2013 designed by Durisch + Nolli Architetti + Bearth & Deplazes Architekten
The new Federal Criminal Court building is located on Via Stefano Franscini, at the place of the former School of Business, whose two floors central building has been conserved. This neoclassical oeuvre has been conceived as the main building, being at the same time representative and austere, and it keeps – even after the refurbishment works – its role as primary entrance. It is now the new home for the Federal Criminal Court. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Ailine Liefeld for Freunde von Freunden archdaily.com |
Nazi Bunker Turned into a Gallery & Home, Berlin, Germany, 2004 designed by Realarchitektur
....the “Berlin Bunker” in the heart of the fashionable “Mitte” district.
Monolithic and symmetrical, decorated only by thin strips of vertical windows on its four identical facades, this former Nazi air-raid shelter stands as a relic of Germany’s past. Yet a closer look beyond its sharp-edged cornice reveals something unexpected: luscious green gardens and a luxurious penthouse, completed in 2007. This is the home of Christian Boros, the art collector whose private collection is stored and exhibited in the depths of the fortified bunker below. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Chaos.Z archdaily.com |
Youth Hotel of iD Town, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, 2014 designed by O-office Architects
The renovation process mainly consists of two spatial actions: firstly equipping the central corridor with new hotel infrastructure to facilitate the new living units, and secondly installing a sequence of prefab steel opening box on the existing facade to create a more dynamic interaction between the building and the surrounding nature. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Minsheng Art Museum archdaily.com |
Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2015 designed by Studio Pei-Zhu
Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum is a renovation of an old factory from the 1980s. The most meaningful moment of art work is the interaction and participation of the public, rather than the moment of its completion. Spaces that are flexible, useful, or even useless, can become the motivation of creativity for artists, of specific site and environment, therefore integrating art works, public and art museum as a whole. -- ArchDaily
