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Architects: ateliermob
- Area: 320 m²
- Year: 2010
Refurbishment: The Latest Architecture and News
Alvega Canoeing Center / ateliermob
The Rehabilitation of Post-War Housing Blocks in 7 Projects
Last year’s granting of the Mies van der Rohe Award to a social housing refurbishment project brought into the spotlight a topic of interest for many European cities: the moral and physical rehabilitation of post-war housing blocks.
Apartment SP I / João Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos
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Architects: João Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos
- Area: 2583 ft²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: -, CIN, Efapel, MOSAICOS D’ALCARIA, MÁRMORES IRMÃOS BERNARDES, +1
Schauman & Nordgren Architects Won a Competition to Design a Housing Block in the Finnish Forest
Schauman & Nordgren Architects, a Copenhagen and Helsinki based architecture and urban planning studio, was selected as the winner of the two-stage competition, organized by the city of Turku in Finland, to transform a former elderly home site into a new 15.000 m2 housing neighborhood.
Hotel MINHO Renewal and Expansion / ,i
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Architects: Virgula i
- Year: 2014
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Manufacturers: panoramah!®, Tons de Pedra
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Professionals: JP Pereira
Studio Akkerhuis Transforms a 19th Century Flour Mill Complex into a Mixed-Use Project
Part of a bigger vision and a master plan by Peter Zumthor, Studio Akkerhuis’ new 55.000 square meter project in Leiden’s 19th-century flour mill complex is under construction. With a landscape by Piet Oudolf and Lola, the development that recently won the "Future Project - Commercial Mixed Use” at WAF, will include shops, galleries, apartments, workspaces, a hotel, and a spa.
Stone Art Gallery / O-office Architects
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Architects: O-office Architects
- Area: 1270 m²
- Year: 2013
Youth Hotel of iD Town / O-office Architects
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Architects: O-office Architects
- Area: 1800 m²
- Year: 2014
Plans to Modernize and Expand the Australian War Memorial Revealed
The AWM or the Australian War Memorial will undergo a series of development and refurbishments works, in order to renovate its galleries and its buildings. COX architecture will design the new Anzac Hall with its connection to the main structure, while Scott Carver will be in charge of the southern entrance.
House in Tajiri 2 / Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates
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Architects: Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates
- Area: 153 m²
- Year: 2012
Tower House / Austin Maynard Architects
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Architects: Austin Maynard Architects
- Area: 225 m²
- Year: 2014
Daoíz y Velarde Cultural Center / Rafael de La-Hoz
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Architects: Rafael de La-Hoz
- Area: 6850 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: Architectural Lighting Solutions, Ciete, Férnández Molina Obras y Servicios S.A., Teisen
Tsukiji Room H / Yuichi Yoshida & associates
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Architects: Yuichi Yoshida & associates
- Area: 47 m²
- Year: 2014
Dirk Denison Renovates the Mies Van Der Rohe Bailey Hall
The Mies van der Rohe residential building, the Bailey Hall built in 1955, at Illinois Institute of Technology will be subject to renovation works by Dirk Denison Architects. The Chicago-based firm will modernize the mechanical, structural, and interior works, modifying its original function, and introducing a new configuration to host up to 330 first- and second-year students, while the exterior will remain faithful to the original design and the ground floor lobby will still hold on to the Mies’ iconic recessed glass lobby.
Architects Propose to Repurpose Decommissioned Industrial Tanks on Brooklyn’s Waterfront
In New York, activists and professionals have been working for many years to try to save 10 decommissioned tanks, from demolition by putting forward alternative usage of these structures. Partnering with STUDIO V, an architectural firm and landscape architects Ken Smith Workshop, they came up with an inventive proposal that reimagines these industrial relics as a 21st-century park, a novelty in the traditional definition and configuration of public spaces.
Space of No Use Showroom / Kosaku Matsumoto
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Architects: Kosaku Matsumoto
- Area: 25 m²
- Year: 2018
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Manufacturers: AGC, Acor, Daiko, Nakamura Paint Industry, TAKEMURA INDUSTRY, +1
What's Pushing Refurbishment Fever in China?
China seems to be at the peak of a refurbishment fever. Not only hutongs in historic downtowns, but abandoned industrial factories are becoming new tech or cultural hubs, and even buildings in the risk of collapse are refurbished to extend their lifespan. Why is this happening? Who is investing? How could this happen in a country where you cannot buy properties?
In this edition of Editor's Talk, our editors from ArchDaily China share their thoughts on how in a fast-paced development process, such as the one China is going through, there is a refurbishment fever in its biggest cities.