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AR New into Old awards
‘Our duty is to give buildings a new lease of life’, Carlo Scarpa once said, ‘so that they may be able to live today and tomorrow’. As the need for sustainable alternatives to building anew becomes increasingly urgent, the AR New into Old awards celebrate the creative ways buildings are adapted and remodelled to welcome new contemporary uses. Launched in 2017, the awards recognise the imaginative appropriation of existing structures, from innovative insertions to ambitious adaptations, that offer buildings a new lease of life. View the awards website to enter or for more information on entry criteria
2017 Winner
Opening statement: Yapı Kredi Culture Centre in Istanbul, Turkey by TegetSubscription
AR New into Old awards 2017 Winner: Teget’s transformation of a bland bank building into the Yapı Kredi Culture Centre is an experimental cultural provocation
Highly commended
Industrial strength: Galleries and youth hostel, iD Town, Shenzhen, China by O-officeSubscription
AR New into Old Highly Commended: Through interventions across a vast disused factory site, O-office have crafted a community of galleries, café and youth hostel
Highly commended
Market share: Malmö Saluhall, Sweden by WingårdhsSubscription
AR New into Old Highly Commended: Wingårdhs’ conversion and extension of a train depot into a bustling food market sets a precedent for the transformation of Malmö’s industrial docks
Commended
Fruit of the loom: The Loom, London, UK by Duggan Morris ArchitectsSubscription
AR New into Old Commended: Duggan Morris have replaced grim PoMo added to a Victorian warehouse in London’s Whitechapel with a refined material language
Commended
Refabricating de Stijl: De Ploeg factory, Bergeijk, the Netherlands by diederendirrixSubscription
AR New into Old Commended: Diederendirrix have recreated Gerrit Rietveld’s De Ploeg weaving mill in Bergeijk using updated materials and technologies
Commended
War of the worlds: Port House headquarters, Antwerp, Belgium by ZHASubscription
AR New into Old Commended: Rearing its woozy head above Antwerp’s sober Port House, the multifaceted extension by ZHA makes a clean break with the past
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The experience is everything: Coal Drops Yard, London, by Heatherwick Studio
The crowning jewel at King’s Cross Central, Heatherwick Studio’s Coal Drops Yard is yet another in a litany of cultural hubs cum shopping arenas that are carefully choreographed confections of disingenuous ‘authentic’ experiences
Changing places: reuse of obsolescent buildings in south London
Driven by culture, commerce, convenience and the vogue for adaptive reuse, south London’s current wave of gentrification is still problematic
Waste not: Rotor and the practice of deconstruction
Building on an ancient culture of reusing and recycling building components, Rotor argues that there is an urgent need to rediscover the art of destruction
Oenological restorative: Aulets Arquitectes, Spain
Preoccupied with the preservation of the architectural culture of Mallorca, Aulets learn from the simple structures of their namesake to create sustainable and contextual local architecture
Back to school: Lycée Hôtelier de Lille, France, by Caruso St John Architects
Bringing new life to a forgotten factory on the outskirts of Lille, the cookery and hospitality school by Caruso St John is the first piece in a complex, political puzzle
From slaughter to laughter: the renovation of a slaughterhouse in Shanghai by IPPR
The 1933 Shanghai Slaughterhouse, which revolutionised abattoir design, has been impeccably transformed by IPPR into a fun palace
Frame of mind: de Vylder Vinck Taillieu's Caritas psychiatric centre
De Vylder Vinck Taillieu’s Caritas psychiatric centre in Melle brings the outside in
Bank balance: Quai 10 cultural centre and riverside regeneration, Charleroi, by V+ / L’Escaut
Transforming the riverside and converting a Brutalist bank into a centre for cinema, V+ and L’Escaut set a gold standard for Charleroi’s future as the city attempts to rise from its post-industrial ashes
Building in potential: house in Nobeoka, Japan by Schemata Architects
AR House 2018 Highly Commended: the architects have breathed new life into three interconnected buildings while maintaining the essence of the old structure
Spent shell: Museum of Beit Beirut, Lebanon, renovated by Youssef Haidar
Emblematic of Lebanon’s troubled past, the Beit Beirut museum seeks to prove that memory is at the root of the narrative of history
Paint the town in red: Ledeberg municipal services centre in Ghent, Belgium, by de Vylder Vinck Taillieu
The new innards of the town hall in Ledeberg erupt from its 19th-century chrysalis
Mine craft: Terrils du Martinet in Charleroi, Belgium by Dessin et Construction
Both a ruined civilisation and the embryo of a new urbanity, this reimagined coal mine waits for a future that may never happen
Overarching ambition: Two houses, Oropesa, Spain by Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos
Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2018 shortlist: Paredes Pedrosa have transformed ancient dilapidated houses in Oropesa into two elegant family homes by the introduction of clarity, luminosity and repose
Military front: Peace and Culture Bunker, Seoul, by CoRe Architects
The threat of imminent attack haunts CoRe Architects’ conversion of a military bunker into an arts and cultural centre
Castaway: Hansen Memorial Museum in Yeosu, South Korea, by Jong Kyu Kim + MARU Network
The memory of Aeyangwon’s leper refuge lives on in Jong Kyu Kim’s Hansen Memorial Museum
Seoullo Performance: Seoullo 7017 skygarden, Seoul, South Korea by MVRDV
Taking a cue from New York’s High Line, Seoul steps up a level
Ghost storeys: Sala Beckett theatre in Barcelona, Spain by Flores & Prats
Restoration of the Sala Beckett building in Barcelona by Flores & Prats puts their stamp on the building without excising its ghosts
Zeitz geist: Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa by Heatherwick Studio
Heatherwick’s spectacular cultural building in Cape Town is not entirely at ease with its financial bedfellows
Cedric Price (1934-2003)
Behind the 9am brandies, cigars and extreme lunching lies Price’s vision of public leisure, freedom and equality
Old into New: The living, the dead and the unborn
The intertwined relationship between old and new, architecture, archaeology and curatorial interpretation, has long been an essential part of how architecture appeals to intellect and emotion
Outrage: future generations will laugh in horror and derision at the folly of facadism
We must stand up to the creeping plague of facadism, an infection spreading across the developments of London
Station to station: Skjern River pumping stations in Jutland, Denmark by Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter
Johansen Skovsted’s remodelled pumping stations in rural West Jutland celebrate conscious and unconscious ties that bind us to the environment
Constructive renewal: Izvestia building, Moscow by Ginzburg Architects
The renovation of Moscow’s Izvestia building by Ginzburg Architects retains the spirit and essence of the Constructivist paragon, writes Natalia Melikova
The Silo in Copenhagen, Denmark by COBE
In remodelling a Copenhagen grain silo, COBE reconceptualises one of Modernism’s key exemplars
Bombay mix: Saat Rasta housing, Mumbai, India, by Studio Mumbai
In the shell of a factory, Studio Mumbai rejects the luxury high-rise trend for a collective way of living
The Captain's House, Fuzhou, China by Vector Architects
AR House Shortlist 2017: a new concrete skin and dramatic vaulted roof has given the Captain’s House a new lease of life
Dutch Delta Works: from engineering feat to cultural statement
RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon are transforming the disused Delta Flume into an intense spatial memorial
Pumping up the volumes: Pumping Stations by Johansen Skovsted
A trio of remodelled pumping stations in West Jutland form modern monuments to complex landscape transformations
Durban Renewal: Pixley House by Designworkshop : SA
The Pixley House refurbishment reconciles desire with emergent conditions
Buildings within buildings: on fragments, blurred thresholds and endless interiors
Spaces that have all the basic threshold qualities of architecture, but are themselves a part of a larger structure, force us to rethink how we expect architecture to behave
Outrage: Commonwealth Institute Betrayed
OMA’s residential towers at the former Commonwealth Institute have destroyed a precious example of modern landscaping
New and old are bound together at Caruso St John’s Newport Street Gallery
An act of philanthropy and architectural patronage has resulted in a work of art
Stitching together the old and the new: Lichtstrasse housing in Basel by HHF
A deft piece of urban surgery renovates and adds to a patchwork Swiss housing block
‘Studio Lotus’ Imagine Studio aspires to be a fulcrum – steering the change to come’
Breathing new life into an old power plant
‘Camino Nuevo has become a positive, stabilizing presence in the neighbourhood’
[Archive] Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in Los Angeles by Daly Genik Architects
Metropolitan Design Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Paolo Gaston Flores
Proto-industrial insertions restore this old fish market in Buenos Aires without compromising its distinctive historical character
Boundary Window in Tokyo by Shingo Masuda + Katsuhisa Otsubo
Winner of 2014’s Emerging Architecture awards, this modest addition experiments with ideas of physical and perceptual transformation
Cleft Bank: Long Art Museum, Shanghai, by Atelier Deshaus
Industry and its aftermath collide on the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, where a concrete canopy of arches shelters a new gallery full of surprising spaces
Negotiating the ruin: The story of Stirling Prize winning Astley Castle in drawings
The reinhabitation of Astley Castle, told through the drawings of its architects, Witherford Watson Mann
Negotiating the ruin: The story of Stirling Prize winning Astley Castle in drawings
The reinhabitation of Astley Castle, told through the drawings of its architects, Witherford Watson Mann
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France, Lacaton & Vassal
Reinvented as a modern, lightweight doppelgänger, a heroic industrial boat shed forms the template for this new arts centre in Dunkirkʼs harbour
Rubido Romero Foundation by Abalo Alonso Arquitectos, Galicia
The renovation of a Galician farmhouse sensitively unites old and new in this sober and compelling regional headquarters building
Kraftwerk: C-Mine Cultural Centre, Genk, Belgium by 51N4E
Grappling with the familiar dilemma of how to shape a post-industrial future, this former powerhouse in the mining town of Genk has metamorphosed into a new cultural centre
House of Holland: The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, by Cruz y Ortiz
Beyond the art and architecture, the remodelling of the Rijksmuseum is underscored by how the Netherlands wants to present itself to the world
Split house, China by Neri & Hu Design and Research Office
AR House 2013 Highly Commended: A local building type is imaginitively rennovated to reveal diaphanous spaces that reveal furtive glimpes of chinese domestic life
White Out: Rotor installation in Ghent, Belgium
A smear of paint transforms former bunkers on Ghent’s docks into a sequence of public spaces − and also into a critique of regeneration
Palais de Tokyo rejuvenated in Paris by Lacaton & Vassal
Beneath the monumental streamlined grandeur of the Palais de Tokyo lurks an evocatively rough and raw building carcass now recolonised as a museum for contemporary creation
Lacaton & Vassal's revitalisation of a Parisian tower block
The striking transformation of a run-down tower in northern Paris suggests an alternative approach to the physical and social redevelopment of decaying post-war housing
Shima Kitchen by Atelier Ryo Abe, Teshima Island, Japan
Emerging Architecture Awards 2010: Winner
Chopo Museum by TEN Arquitectos, Mexico City, Mexico
A 100-year-old iron and glass pavilion gets a new least of life through TEN Arquitectos’ bold yet simple building-within-a-building. Photography by Luis Goroda
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