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The AR has long championed creative re-use, and the subject has become of significant new interest because of the carbon implications of retrofit rather than replacement. This award celebrates the successful adaptation of original architecture to contemporary functions as well as the varied remodelling strategies, such as innovative insertions, that make imaginative re-use possible.
By George Kafka
AR New into Old Winner: Teget’s transformation of a bland bank building into the Yapı Kredi Culture Centre is an experimental cultural provocation
By Juan Du
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
By Eleanor Beaumont
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
By Christophe Van Gerrewey
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
AR New into Old Commended: Diederendirrix have recreated Gerrit Rietveld’s De Ploeg weaving mill in Bergeijk using updated materials and technologies
By Jay Merrick
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
Both a ruined civilisation and the embryo of a new urbanity, this reimagined coal mine waits for a future that may never happen
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
The threat of imminent attack haunts CoRe Architects’ conversion of a military bunker into an arts and cultural centre
The memory of Aeyangwon’s leper refuge lives on in Jong Kyu Kim’s Hansen Memorial Museum
Taking a cue from New York’s High Line, Seoul steps up a level
Restoration of the Sala Beckett building in Barcelona by Flores & Prats puts their stamp on the building without excising its ghosts
Heatherwick’s spectacular cultural building in Cape Town is not entirely at ease with its financial bedfellows
Behind the 9am brandies, cigars and extreme lunching lies Price’s vision of public leisure, freedom and equality
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
We must stand up to the creeping plague of facadism, an infection spreading across the developments of London
Johansen Skovsted’s remodelled pumping stations in rural West Jutland celebrate conscious and unconscious ties that bind us to the environment
In remodelling a Copenhagen grain silo, COBE reconceptualises one of Modernism’s key exemplars
In the shell of a factory, Studio Mumbai rejects the luxury high-rise trend for a collective way of living
AR House Shortlist 2017: a new concrete skin and dramatic vaulted roof has given the Captain’s House a new lease of life
RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon are transforming the disused Delta Flume into an intense spatial memorial
A trio of remodelled pumping stations in West Jutland form modern monuments to complex landscape transformations
The Pixley House refurbishment reconciles desire with emergent conditions
Buildings within buildings force us to rethink how we expect architecture to behave
OMA’s residential towers at the former Commonwealth Institute have destroyed a precious example of modern landscaping
An act of philanthropy and architectural patronage has resulted in a work of art
The renovation of Moscow’s Izvestia building by Ginzburg Architects retains the spirit and essence of the Constructivist paragon, writes Natalia Melikova
A deft piece of urban surgery renovates and adds to a patchwork Swiss housing block
Breathing new life into an old power plant
[Archive] Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in Los Angeles by Daly Genik Architects
Proto-industrial insertions restore this old fish market in Buenos Aires without compromising its distinctive historical character
Winner of 2014’s Emerging Architecture awards, this modest addition experiments with ideas of physical and perceptual transformation
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
The reinhabitation of Astley Castle, told through the drawings of its architects, Witherford Watson Mann
The reinhabitation of Astley Castle, told through the drawings of its architects, Witherford Watson Mann
Reinvented as a modern, lightweight doppelgänger, a heroic industrial boat shed forms the template for this new arts centre in Dunkirkʼs harbour
The renovation of a Galician farmhouse sensitively unites old and new in this sober and compelling regional headquarters building
Beyond the art and architecture, the remodelling of the Rijksmuseum is underscored by how the Netherlands wants to present itself to the world
Highly Commended: A local building type is imaginitively rennovated to reveal diaphanous spaces that reveal furtive glimpes of chinese domestic life
A smear of paint transforms former bunkers on Ghent’s docks into a sequence of public spaces − and also into a critique of regeneration
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
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
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
Emerging Architecture Awards 2010: Winner
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
A curated selection of the best architectural ideas in the world to
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