Industrial Architecture & Continuing Use
A monument that still goes to work.
The Fagus factory in Alfeld helped change the language of industrial architecture. Its continuing working life matters as much as its glass corners.
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Experimental Housing & Material Continuity
The house that could be assembled again.
Aluminaire House began as a 1931 argument for industrially made housing. Its reconstruction in Palm Springs gives that unfinished argument a visible second life.
Art Deco & Architectural Stewardship
The villa that needed another life.
Villa Empain in Brussels is more than a restored Art Deco interior. Its continuing public life shows what preservation has to do after the photographs are taken.
Architecture & Human Dignity
A building that lowers the threshold.
Snøhetta’s Maggie’s Aberdeen puts thoughtful architecture at the service of people affected by cancer. Its purpose is more important than its sculptural outline.
Landscape & Architecture
A room that knows where to look.
At Juvet in Norway, privacy comes partly from the direction a room faces. The landscape is not a decorative backdrop added after the building.
Architecture & Cultural Stewardship
The work behind keeping art.
Rotterdam’s Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen turns art storage into a public encounter. The most important exhibit may be the work that keeps a collection alive.
Adaptive Reuse & Aviation Architecture
The terminal you can stay with.
The TWA Flight Center no longer needs to function as its original airline terminal to remain an extraordinary place to arrive.
Libraries & Public Architecture
A city within the books.
At Mexico City’s Biblioteca Vasconcelos, suspended bookshelves make knowledge feel like a landscape you can enter.
Adaptive Reuse & Cultural Infrastructure
The space inside the silos.
At Zeitz MOCAA, an extraordinary entrance was carved from a structure designed to hold grain. The old tubes become the starting point for a new public interior.
Cooperative Housing & Shared Ownership
A home without a resale thesis.
Barcelona’s La Borda separates the right to inhabit a home from the right to sell it. Its architecture is only half of the experiment.
Adaptive Reuse & Public Roof Landscapes
A garden above a difficult history.
The St. Pauli bunker carries a public garden above a wartime structure. Its value depends on making room for present-day life without allowing the planting to conceal how the building began.
Experimental Housing & Inhabited Heritage
A garden for an apartment.
Habitat 67 stacks homes without surrendering the idea of a private terrace. Almost six decades later, its strongest argument is that people still live inside the experiment.