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This website features a selection of the best property refurbishments around the world, by respected architects studios.
Design: Souto Moura Arquitectos. Award for the restoration of the Convento das Bernardas building, based on the construction of a resort with 78 residences. The architecture design has two types of intervention: new construction work and the recovery of the existing building
The final pour of concrete into the Northwest chimney marks the completion of the Battersea Power Station chimney rebuild. The four iconic chimneys have been rebuilt using the same construction technique as when they first graced London’s skyline.
Design: Studio DiDeA Architetti Associati. The architects have converted a small former clothes shop – 38 square meters – making it special by the unveiling, during the refurbishment works, of some frescoes dating back to the late Nineteenth Century.
The building design by Zaha Hadid Architects converts an abandoned site into a new 20,000 sqm public park and community of more than 700 apartments together with 55,000 sqm of office and retail space connected to the city’s tram and bus networks.
Allied London and architects Levitt Bernstein have submitted design proposals to reinvigorate two of Manchester’s best loved buildings – London Road Fire Station and the Old Granada Studios at St. John’s
Architects: Consortium Lemay and Atelier 21
An innovative Canadian first for a heritage preservation project of its size, the new glass envelope that will protect the Grand Théâtre de Québec is a Lemay and Atelier 21 consortium design and the winning solution in the cultural complex’s architectural competition.
Design: JUNG Architectures & Simon Buri. The Gatehouse of the former hospital hosts the Tourist Information Office, while the Poor Hall and the Chapel, with its own access to the piazza, comprise temporary exhibition areas.
Design: OMI Architects. Grade 2 listed office building in the Upper King Street Conservation Area, in the traditional commercial centre of Manchester. Originally designed by prolific Victorian architecture practice Clegg and Knowles in 1868.
Two year restoration of handsome Grade II listed gatehouse completed by Austin-Smith:Lord. The Gothic revival building was formerly on Historic England’s ‘Heritage at Risk’ register.
Design: FABBRICANOV. The new Auditorium of the Banca di Credito Cooperativo (B.C.C.) “G. Toniolo” in San Cataldo born from the client’s desire to create a public space for cultural events open to the public and for hosting business private meetings.
Numerous improvements revealed for Chicago’s tallest building. Totaling up to $500 m the renovations will include six floors of new retail space, an outdoor deck and a winter garden. The tower was once the world’s tallest building for 25 years.
A major step forward in the restoration of the Mackintosh Library was marked today, 3 February 2017, with the appointment of Laurence McIntosh to construct a full-size prototype of a library bay.
Architect: Liddicoat & Goldhill. The playful ‘Ancient Party Barn’ is the conversion, renovation and restoration of a Kentish barn into a highly unusual home.
Design: Ben Herzog, Architect. The architects added a new stair bulkhead to the roof and a roof deck with embedded lights, removed a 2-story portion of the rear structural wall and replaced it with glass and aluminum panels