Transformation architecture

Gjuteriet | Kjellander Sjöberg Arkitektkontor

For more than 20 years, the protected ‘Marinehaus,‘ originally a union club for naval officers, was left neglected in the central Berlin neighborhood, Mitte.

Since 1998 the Web Atlas of Contemporary Architecture

Image 16 of 25 from gallery of Lacaton & Vassal’s Transformation of 530 Dwellings Through the Lens of Laurian Ghinitoiu. Photograph by Laurian Ghinitoiu

The 2019 Mies Award brought into the spotlight a topic of interest for many European cities: the moral and physical rehabilitation of post-war housing blocks.

public space: European Prize for Urban Public Space

Architecture Design Basics - in this post looking at form and how it responds to conditions of function, purpose and context.

Monasteries, warehouses and factories given radical second lives this year

Architecture practice Sebastián Arquitectos was commissioned to recover this old abandoned hermitage in a wooded area in the northwest of the province of Huesca. The hermitage of San Juan de Ruesta, whose foundation dates back to the 12th century, was a unique piece of the Aragonese Camino de Santiago with an apse and presbytery in Romanesque style, and famous for having housed a beautiful set of Romanesque wall paintings from the 12th century, torn in 1963 and that today can be visited in…

A recent wave of large-scale projects is transforming five Dutch cities and encouraging creative reuse of derelict industrial sites around the world.