Courtesy of Make Architects

Architects: Make Architects
Location: London, England
Client: London and Regional Properties Ltd
Collaborators: Arup, Blyth & Blyth, DP9, Expedition Engineering, Hann Tucker, HBG, Indigo Lighting, Jason Bruges Studio, Safe Consulting Ltd, Tweeds Construction Consultancy
Project Area: 75,000 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Zander Olsen, Make Architects

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© Kevin Hui & Adrian Rivalland

Architect: Marc Dixon
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Project Team: Rosanna Ceravolo – Pablo Byass – Adrian Rivalland Builder – Canterbury
Builders Engineer: Shane Ford Contracting P/L
Photographs: Kevin Hui, Adrian Rivalland

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Via The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse

The Preservation Green Lab at the National Trust for Historic Preservation has recently published their study The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse. Resolving many conflicted arguments, this study confirms that reusing and retrofitting existing buildings with an average level of energy performance almost always offers environmental savings over demolition and more energy-efficient new construction. The research provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the potential environmental impact reductions associated with building reuse. The Preservation Green Lab utilizes Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology to compare reuse and renovations with new construction over the course of a 75-year life span. Continue reading for more. read more »

© Simon Devitt

Architect: Stephenson&Turner
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Client: 152 Quay St Body Corporate
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Simon Devitt, Stephenson&Turner

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© Peter Bennetts

Architects: Anthony Gill Architects
Location: Sydney, Australia
Project Team: Anthony Gill and Sarah Mcspadden
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 38 sqm
Photographs: Peter Bennetts

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Courtesy of OFIS arhitekti

Architects: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Janez Martincic, Janja Del Linz, Laura Carroll, Erin Durno, Leonor Coutinho, Maria Trnovska, Jolien Maes, Sergio Silva Santos, Grzegorz Ostrowski, Javier Carrera, Magdalena Lacka, Estefania Lopez Tornay, Nika Zufic
Structural Engineering: Elea IC d.o.o.
Mechanical Engineering: ISP d.o.o.
Electrical Engineering: Eurolux d.o.o.
Client: DZS d.d
Site Area: 692 sqm
Gross Floor Area: 2,420 sqm
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric, Jan Celeda

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© FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

Architects: JLCG Arquitectos / João Luís Carrilho da Graça
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Project Team: Francisco Freire, Paulo Costa, Joanna Malitski, Vera Schmidberger, Paula Miranda, Marcos Roque, Raquel Morais, Luis Cordeiro, Vanessa Pimenta, architect; Nuno Pinto, drawing
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: New construction: 4,500 sqm; Existing intervention: 7,500 sqm; Outer spaces: 30,200 sqm
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

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Courtesy of MCA atelier

Architects: MCA atelier
Location: Horská ulice, Prague, Czech Republic
Cooperation: Mgr. art. Peter Buš, Ing. Pavel Košťálek
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1,870 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of MCA atelier

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Courtesy of EMBAIXADA arquitectura

Architect: EMBAIXADA arquitectura
Location: Praceta Alves Redol, 2300 Tomar, Portugal
Project Team: Albuquerque Goinhas, Augusto Marcelino, Cristina Mendonça, Luis Baptista, Nuno Griff, Pedro Patrício, Sofia Antunes
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 980,34 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of EMBAIXADA arquitectura

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Courtesy of drdh architects

It’s our eight selection of previously featured refurbishment projects and we’re still featuring some of the best ones we published back in 2009! Check them all after the break.

Khan house / drdh architects
drdh architects sent us this house with a long previous story. Speculatively built by 19th Century developers, it has been adapted and distorted over time to suit circumstance – acquiring a single storey shop and basement, an extra storey, a cantilevered lavatory and a garage. Of more immediate concern was the basement, where the floor had been dug out and the corbels sheared off the party walls, to provide extra space (read more…) read more »

© Marco Introini

Kengo Kuma & Associates who completed the CCCWall and the CCCloud, and client, Casalgrande Padana, recently implemented a significant architectural restoration project inserted in the Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud system: the spectacular landmark completed for the Reggio company only one year ago. The Old House is the result of an interesting project for the requalification of the existing item designed by Kuma with the sensitivity that characterizes his approach to the themes of tradition. The pre-existing building, a typical farmhouse of the Reggio countryside that survived the deep industrial changes in the territory, has been completely restored and recovered to the function of historical archive and documentation center of Casalgrande Padana. More images and project description after the break. read more »

Courtesy Michael Moran

Architects: Architecture Research Office (ARO)
Location: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Project Team: Stephen Cassell, Principal; Kim Yao, Associate/Principal; Neil Patel, Project Manager; Gustavo Colmenares
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 18,100 sqf (GSF)
Photographs: Michael Moran

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© Fay Pynaert

Architects: GRAUX & BAEYENS architecten
Location: Frans De Potterstraat 9 – 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Completion: 2011
Site area: 162 sqm
Built area: 234 sqm
Photographs: Fay Pynaert, Philippe Brysse, GRAUX & BAEYENS architecten

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Courtesy of SHINE Architecture

Architects: SHINE Architecture
Location: Leon, Mexico

Project Credits: Minche Mena, Michael Smith, Ruben Vazquez, Jose Zermeno
Developed by: SHINE Architecture

Typology: Social-Education
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of SHINE Architecture

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© Hitoshi Kawamoto

Architects: Tadashi Yoshimura Architects
Location: Gose-city, Nara, Japan
Structural Engineers: Kazuhiro Yamaguchi
General Contractor: Nakayama Komuten
Site area: 634 sq m
Total floor area: 139 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Hitoshi Kawamoto

   
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Courtesy of Filippo Taidelli Architetto

Architects: Filippo Taidelli Architetto (FTA)
Location: Milan, Italy
Program: Building renovation
Client: Immobiliare Zenale
Size: 2.500 sqm
Budget: € 4.000.000
Partners: Arch. Piero Castellini Baldissera
Consultants: Manens Intertecnica S.r.l., Enco Engeneering Consulting, S. Sesana, Studio Tre, Falegnameria Ori e Bonetti, LDW Lighting Design Workshop
Photographs: Courtesy of Filippo Taidelli Architetto

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© Paul Warchol

Architects: Dean-Wolf Architects
Location: Manhattan, New York, USA
Partner in Charge: Kathryn Dean, AIA
Project Architect: Charles Wolf
Project Designer: Eunjeong Seong
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 10,500 sqf
Photographs: Paul Warchol

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© Francesco Di Gregorio

Architects: Francesco Di Gregorio & Karin Matz
Location: Parma, Italy
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 90 sqm
Photographs: Francesco Di Gregorio

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© Antonio Ceruelo

Architects: Ricardo Uson, ACXT Arquitectos / Antonio Lorén Collado, Eduardo Aragüés Rioja
Location: Zaragoza, Spain
Project Director: Antonio Lorén Collado
Assistants: Olatz Maestre, Jose Angel Ruiz, Raimundo Bambo
Project Management: Antonio Lorén Collado
Civil Engineer: Fernando Lopez, Cristina Salavera
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 44.000 sqm
Photographs: Antonio Ceruelo & Aitor Ortiz

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© Doug Scott

Architects: Schacht Aslani Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 47,450 sqf
Photographs: Doug Scott

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