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Arts and Crafts hospital converted into holiday home by Benjamin + Beauchamp Architects

February 13, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

CFA Voysey's Winsford Cottage Hospital in Devon, UK, by Benjamin + Beauchamp Architects for the Landmark Trust

Benjamin + Beauchamp Architects has renovated CFA Voysey’s Winsford Cottage Hospital in Devon, England, and turned it into a holiday home for the Landmark Trust charity. The cottage hospital, which was designed by prominent British Arts and Crafts architect and designer Voysey, has been converted into self-catering accommodation for six people and a space for community

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Casa Vagantes / Arista Cero + Gina Góngora

February 12, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

An intervention of an existing building to accommodate travellers visiting Mérida, Yucatán. The work is located 150m from one of the main avenues “Paseo Montejo” and very close to the historic centre of the city. The architectural response seeks to restore and to leave evidence of the passage of time affecting the building. The impression of time is preserved by scraping the walls in order to show the different colours they have gone through, by preserving the oxides of the metalworks and by recycling and recovering doors and windows.

BenTen Residences / Asami Architect and Associates

February 11, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

In the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto, the wrecking ball continues to swing. The wooden townhouses that give the city so much of its atmosphere are disappearing at a rate of about 800 machiya a year.

In-filled Void / California Design Lab + S.E.E.D haus

January 29, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

The Cafe Camptong project is designed to transform an old building stood empty for a long time in Apgujeong, Gangnam, a place having the most urban context in Seoul, into a cultural space. This project began with a consideration about how to build a new relationship between the building with stopped time and isolated spaces and the city. A building can easily change its shape from a market space of the past into an office of today. If it fails to harmonize with its surrounding environment, however, it would just be one of many that stand there without any meaning.

St. John’s Library Restoration / Public City Architecture

January 17, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

The St John’s Library restoration and addition involves the refurbishment of one of three 100-year old, city-owned Carnegie Libraries and the addition of a modest new entry hall which doubles as a reading room. Along with upgrades to building systems to meet new energy and accessibility codes, the scope of work includes the addition of a community plaza and stormwater retention garden in Winnipeg’s “North End”.

Recovery of Merola’s Tower / Carles Enrich Studio

January 16, 2020 Daniel Tapia 0

In the south of the municipality of Puig-Reig stand the remains of the heritage site of the castle of Merola, dated from the late thirteenth century. Due to the documented earth tremors that shook Catalonia in the 1500s, only one of the faces of the defense tower, originally with a rectangular plant of 5 x 3,8 m and 14,8 m height, is still standing. The detachment of part of its coronation in 2016 put Puig-reig Town Council on alert. The high risk of collapse, with the subsequent loss of the monument, called for an intervention to guarantee the preservation of the remains and the recovery of the building for the village as an attraction for visitors.

Restauradores Building / Saraiva + Associados

January 4, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

The refurbishment of the building in Restauradores Square, built at the end of the 19^th century, sought to respect the structural features of this period. The building has 22 independent apartments and is mixed use, combining housing on the upper levels (1st to 6th floor) and services on the lower ground floor and in the basement. Prior to the refurbishment, the apartments, although licensed for residential use, were mainly used for office space and services, similar to what is still the case nowadays for the majority of the older buildings in the downtown of the city, where this one is located.

Arsenal 108 Building / SIA arquitectura + Manuel Aires Mateus

December 27, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

A building links the higher and lower levels of the city. Through its interior we are carried from the riverside bank to Chiado hill.

Rehabilitación del Castillo de Montjuïc / Forgas Arquitectes

December 8, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

The Montjuic Castle is a bastioned fortress that took its actual form in the 18th century. Its concession to the city has allowed initiating the recovery of remarkably valuable national heritage (BCIN) previously used for military purposes, to convert it into a cultural and leisure public facility.

Pedro House / Diagrama Arquitectos

December 6, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

Casa Pedro aims to rescue the city’s architectural heritage by restoring an early-20th century building and adding an annex to the back, thus establishing a discrete and respectful dialogue between the historical and contemporary. As part of a large-scale urban reactivation plan for Guadalajara’s Historic Center, Casa Pedro plays a role in the re-densification of an area that is partially unoccupied and devitalized.