Restoration architecture

Image 5 of 71 from gallery of Restoration of Castello dei Doria a Dolceacqua / LDArchitects. Courtesy of LDArchitects

<span>In the Czech Republic, the new stratigraphy of routes designed by Atelier-r among the ruins of Helfštýn Castle reinterprets the signs and the historical memory of the fortress and the surrounding landscape.</span>

Image 2 of 50 from gallery of Convent Saint François / Amelia Tavella. Photograph by Thibaut Dini

Adaptive reuse, or adaptive re-use in architecture, is the process of repurposing buildings that have outlived their original purposes for different reasons and adapting them to receive new different uses or functions while at the same time retaining and emphasizing their historic features.

misericordia di venezia, a historic building that forms an important part of the city's cultural and artistic heritage, has undergone a major renovation.

Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century warehouse in Riga to make it a venue called Hanzas Perons.

Completed in 2015 in Dolceacqua, Italy. After widespread interventions of restoration undertaken since the early 90 's, 2012-2015 covered the restoration and consolidation of certain...

Thanks to Amelia Tavella Architectes’ restoration and extension project, the Saint-François Monastery in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano has returned to life as an intermingling of past and present. Built in 1480, its ruins and remnants were preserved using an almost archaeological approach. The past flowing into the presentThe past spills over into the present, tradition merges with the modern day – by assuming the perspective of both archaeologist and architect, Amelia Tavella Architectes created…

Chiesa Diruta Concert Hall, project made for the Reuse the Fallen Church Competetion by Reuse Italy in march of 2021.

The Bauhaus Museum in Weimar, designed by Muffler Architekten, transforms the historic carriage depot at Theaterplatz 4. The project blends original symmetry with modern interventions, featuring spaces for education, exhibitions, and research, all in a sustainable and elegant design.

Monasteries, warehouses and factories given radical second lives this year

From its roofs you can now see the sky... but you, what do you see? Save the Fallen Church of Diruta from oblivion, join competition!