This project is the renovation of a 55-year-old house that has been passed down for three generations. The original house was built with strong wall-type reinforced concrete by the grandfather of the current owner to protect his family.
In recent years, the negative environmental impact of the construction industry has significantly changed how we view the demolition of existing buildings in favor of new builds. Renovating or redeveloping existing building stock and extending the life span of our buildings is now favored as a more sustainable solution, while also ensuring the retention of inherent historical or local significance.
Located in the center of Shiqiao sub-district of Panyu, Xianfeng Community has been the political and commercial center of Panyu since ancient times and is the epitome of Panyu’s history and culture for over a thousand years. Xianfeng Community has prominent clan settlement culture and rich industrial and commercial trade cultural relics. Since the 21st century, Panyu District has been actively integrated into the development of the main urban area of Guangzhou, forming an economic, educational, and residential agglomeration to the north, which has led to the shift of the urban center of Panyu to the north, and the function and space of the city bridge have gradually declined, becoming a depression for the urban development of Panyu. The old glory is no longer. Under the background of China’s comprehensive promotion of the renovation of old urban communities, this project is launched to preserve the history and culture of the sub-district and reproduce its collective memories, and explore new paths and new methods of micro-renovation that are different from the general practice.
Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a contemporary remodel of a 1970s home they completed that was originally designed by prominent Seattle Architect, Ralph Anderson. The 3-story home on Seattle’s Mercer Island was renovated and modernized, preserving what the current owners loved about their home while creating more functional and fresh spaces inside […]
The building of a former blacksmith shop with a barn stands in the valley of Blanice River in a nearly untouched area in Pošumaví. The only neighbors are the ruins of a former mill, a sawmill, and the silence of the surrounding pastures.
The project is located in Xuyi, Jiangsu Province, with Huaihe River in the northwest and the First Mountain in the southeast, adjacent to the First Mountain Historic District. The existing building on the site is a three-way courtyard, currently vacant, with an abandoned water tower in the backyard. Drinking tea and watching Huangmei Opera is very popular in the local area. The openness of the teahouse-style small theater is in line with the simplicity and lightness of Huangmei Opera. In terms of space and function positioning, it is not limited to conventional theater interpretation, but to build a small theater based on the local characteristic Huangmei Opera, combine with the local taste of Yushan Tea, and introduce the traditional cultural exhibition and salon space of intangible cultural heritage to form a “Huangmei Opera+” characteristic cultural museum.
To enable the integration between the social areas of the apartment, the core of the existing plan – composed of the bathrooms – was transformed into an open kitchen, providing more amplitude to the space and integration with the view.
The project is an extension and renovation of an existing Victorian terrace. It was conceived as a prototype for urban dense living, where the development has been thoughtfully maximized within local planning constraints. The traditional type of terraced house backed by a garden has been transformed into a new type – a patio house. It successfully responds to the challenge of making experientially rich dwellings within the context of congested cityscape.
Newton’s project presented itself as a great opportunity, one of those that architects dream of finding at some point, an apartment building designed and built in the 50s by architect Abraham Zabludovsky, in an exceptional location.
The couple came to the office looking for a renovation project in their apartment located in Asa Norte, Brasília. When they got in touch with CoDA, they were living in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the office’s biggest challenge was to adapt the process to the needs of a remote client, such as adapting the time zone and documenting the construction by video.
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