Conservation architecture

Image 2 of 50 from gallery of Convent Saint François / Amelia Tavella. Photograph by Thibaut Dini

In recent times many older buildings have been conserved using various methods. The addition of modern architectural interventions is one....

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The Holcim Awards 2023 gold prize for Asia Pacific went to Fujian Tulou designed by Tiantian Xu. The project defines a conservation approach through adaptive reuse and proposes a prototypical framework for giving new value to tulou structures that are not already protected by a World Heritage covenant.

<span>In the Czech Republic, the new stratigraphy of routes designed by Atelier-r among the ruins of Helfštýn Castle reinterprets the signs and the historical memory of the fortress and the surrounding landscape.</span>

The main purpose of the work was to restore the public use of the old temple, transforming it in a new and secure multifunctional public room. But the challe...

Machado Silvetti designs glass enclosure for Virginia home of signer of Declaration of Independence

Adaptive reuse, or adaptive re-use in architecture, is the process of repurposing buildings that have outlived their original purposes for different reasons and adapting them to receive new different uses or functions while at the same time retaining and emphasizing their historic features.