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Urban Reuse & Public Water Landscapes
At Tainan Spring, the remains of a shopping mall help frame a sunken public landscape. The useful inheritance is not another shop, but another way for the city to occupy the site.
Sacred Architecture & Material Attention
Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus chapel stands in a field rather than at the centre of a grand complex. Its scale, changing light and continuing devotional purpose give the architecture more than a striking silhouette.
Timber Architecture & Shared Cultural Buildings
Sara Kulturhus in northern Sweden brings a hotel, a library, theatre and art into one timber building. Its most interesting scale is not just upwards, but outwards into the daily life of a city.
Architectural Reuse & Contemporary Art
The Bourse de Commerce in Paris keeps its historical envelope while making room for a contemporary collection. The new intervention is interesting because it makes the older building more visible, not less.
Modernist Homes & Material Reconstruction
Villa Cavrois looks remarkably assured for a house once abandoned and vandalised. Its restoration reveals how much knowledge is needed to recover an architectural idea, not simply repair its walls.
Public Infrastructure & Rooftop Landscapes
CopenHill puts a recreational landscape on a working waste-to-energy plant. The valuable idea is a second use for an industrial roof, not an architectural image being mistaken for proof of carbon neutrality.
Exoskeletons & Contemporary Hospitality
Morpheus in Macau turns its load-bearing exterior into the building’s identity. The spectacle becomes more interesting when you understand what that lattice makes possible inside.
Gallery Bridges & Spatial Invention
At Kistefos in Norway, BIG’s The Twist is both crossing and gallery. A ninety-degree turn makes wall, ceiling and riverbank part of the same architectural question.
Industrial Landscapes & Public Reuse
At Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, blast furnaces and loading structures remain part of a public landscape. A place built for production acquired another kind of usefulness.
Railway Heritage & Adaptive Hospitality
Canfranc’s former international station has another life as a hotel. The interesting luxury is not a star rating, but the possibility of inhabiting an ambitious railway building again.
Research Architecture & Shared Space
At the Salk Institute, Louis Kahn placed a remarkable open court between working laboratories. Its value is more than a view towards the Pacific: a place for science that also makes room for thought.
Thatched Houses & Adaptive Reuse
Chiiori in Japan’s Iya valley preserves a thatched house through another form of use. A bookable stay makes the relationship between old fabric, modern comfort and continuing care tangible.
