Site Specific: Unfinished House
Alterations to a family home in Innsbruck by ANA.
Archive
Site Specific: A Columbarium for Chartreuse Cemetery
A collaboration between artist Jenna Kaes, architect Martial Marquet and landscape designer Renan Rousselot in Bordeaux, France.
Site Specific: Door
Belgian practice Verloren Bekisting have made a simple intervention within the fabric of the WD40 project space in Ghent.
Site Specific: Offenbach Kaleidoscope
ANA Institut’s project to highlight the Gothaer-Haus in Offenbach am Main, Germany.
Site Specific: Beeskow Castle
New cultural pavilions set within an historic castle in East Germany by Atelier Fanelsa.
Site Specific: Dentil Furniture by Shotaro Oshima
A set of tables and chairs for an historic office building in Tokyo designed by Shotaro Oshima Design Studio.
Site Specific: House of Trace
A terraced house in London extended by Tsuruta Architects.
Site Specific: To Cook
A new restaurant in the Portuguese village of Serra de São Mamede by STUDIOLO.
As Found: Experiments in Preservation
An extract from the book published by the Flanders Architecture Institute to accompany the 2023/24 exhibition As Found: Experiments in Preservation.
Site Specific: Oakley Place
Russian For Fish have completed the renovation of an apartment in a terraced house in London with colour used throughout.
Site Specific: Pune College of Engineering
Localground’s ‘civic loggia’ added to the exterior of Pune’s College of Engineering building in India.
Site Specific: Transformation of a West Coast Farmhouse
A proposal by Jespersen Nødtvedt to transform a vernacular farmhouse on the west coast of Denmark.
Site Specific: Monte dos Judeus 74
Portuguese practice oitoo have stitched together a new urban ensemble within an historic neighbourhood overlooking the Douro river in Porto.
Ad Hoc Baroque: Marcel Raymaekers’ Salvage Architecture
An extract from the book about the extraordinary Belgian designer Marcel Raymaekers written by members of the Belgian practice Rotor.
Site Specific: Frau* schafft Raum
FREDIANI Studio’s project in Vienna to adapt the site of a tobacconists shop on a busy city street, once the scene of a tragic murder and now a place of remembrance and a public art gallery.
Site Specific: Kilchberg Apartment Building
Salomé Wackernagel’s renovation of an apartment building in Zurich, Switzerland.
Site Specific: Casa Líquida
Architect Luiz Pataro uses steel and fabric to create a flexible series of spaces for an artistic community in São Paulo, Brazil.
Site Specific: Dick Mack’s Pub
Luke Matone Architect grafts new layers and spaces on to an historic pub in Dingle, Ireland.
Site Specific: Komoru Goshogawara
Work by Shotaro Oshima Design Studio in Aomori, Japan. The conversion of a large house into a small hotel.
Site Specific: A Porch for St Pauls Cathedral
Connolly Wellingham Architects share their completed project for a new porch for London’s iconic landmark.
Site Specific: Ground Floor House
Portuguese practice oitoo’s alteration of a commercial space into a new family home in Porto.
Site Specific: Ancien Manège
Estar’s re-working of a nineteenth century urban complex in the city of Geneva.
Site Specific: Guadix Hotel
A competition entry by Smith and Taylor Architects for the retrieval and improvement of the area of the Citadel of Guadix, Granada in Spain.
Royal College of Art, 2023, “Down to Earth”
A selection of projects by students from the ADS1 diploma unit tutored by Matthew Blunderfield & Andrea Zanderigo.
Site Specific: Gartenhaus
architectural/practice’s ‘Nongmak’ weekend house in Hongcheon, Korea.
Site Specific: Domestic Spolia
architectural/practice’s adjustments to an apartment in Seoul, Korea.
Site Specific: Bairro do Silva
Pablo Pita Architects and Heim Balp Architekten refashion an urban enclave in Porto, Portugal.
Site Specific: Low Energy House
The founder of Architecture for London, Ben Ridley, adapts his own terraced house in London with a focus on energy and atmosphere.
Site Specific: Academia das Ciencas
Tuckey Design Studio’s proposals for adapting the Lisbon Academy of Science to its new role as a public museum.
Site Specific: Three Floating Objects
The work of Studio Shunsuke Kimura at KYOTOGRAPHIE 2020, Japan. A series of temporary interventions supporting an exhibition about Kyomachiya, the historical townhouses of Kyoto.
Site Specific: Coastal Cottage
GAAN Architects proposed adaptation of a cottage on the west coast of Ireland.
Site Specific: Olidouro House
Work by Portuguese practice oitoo. A new winter garden acts as the key organising element in the reconfiguration of a family house in Gaia, Portugal.
Maremoto: Collage Collection
Irish practice Maremoto share thoughts on their use of collage.
Site Specific: Lubetkin Apartment
Studio naama’s reworked apartment in the Grade II Listed Sivil House in East London, a building designed by Berthold Lubetkin, Douglas Bailey and Francis Skinner and completed in 1962.
Site Specific: The Quay
TOB Architect presents new work in Ramelton in County Donegal, Ireland, which adapts an historic warehouse building into a pair of new homes. Architect Thomas O’Brien’s text outlines the life of the project and reflects on the possibility of an ‘emancipatory aesthetics’ that can emerge from the process of making interventional architecture.
Site Specific: A Façade for an Artist Studio
An installation at for an artist’s studio in Heerlen in the Netherlands by Ben Weir.
Site Specific: Secret Garden Flat
A self-built project in South London by Architect Nic Howett, which creates a series of live/work spaces interwoven with an intimate, inner city garden.
Site Specific: 10K House
Spanish practice TAKK’s remodelling of a 50m² apartment in Barcelona.
Site Specific: St Gallen Textile Museum Competition
A selection of drawings by Studio Okuljar from their 2020 competition entry for the St Gallen Textile Museum.
A Campus for Flour: Between Horizontal and Vertical
Oliver Reynold’s Diploma Project for a campus for flour in Bromley-by-Bow,in London.
Site Specific: Unfinished Matter(s)
Work by MRND in Coimbra, Portugal.
Site Specific: Hanzas Perons
Sudraba Arhitektūra’s rescued rail warehouse in Riga, Latvia.
Anne Misfeldt: Collage Collision Collection
A selection of handmade collages by Denmark based artist Anne Misfeldt.
Site Specific: House Within a Few Lines
Fala Atelier’s graphic reworking of a small house on a narrow urban plot in Porto, Portugal.
Critical Neighbourhoods: The Architecture of Contested Communities
An extract from editor Paulo Moreira’s introduction to this analyses of three informal neighbourhoods in Africa, Latin America, and India, translating their spatial and social characteristics into architectural language.
Site Specific: Casa Zaire
Paulo Moreira Architectures bring a small porter’s lodge back to life in Porto, Portugal.
Site Specific: House in Winterthur
Stefan Wülser & Nicolaj Bechtel’s alterations to a family house in the Swiss town of Winterthur.
Gian Paolo Minelli: Cité des Poètes
Photographic documentation of the partially demolished housing complex in Pierreffite Sur Seine, France.
Karin Borghouts: KMSKA Renovation
Photographs of Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts, KMSKA, under construction.
Site Specific: Provedència Apartment
AMOO Arquitectes’ refurbishment of a rooftop apartment in Barcelona
Site Specific: Krüner Straße
Multerer Architekten’s extension of a Munich Townhouse.
Camilo Jose Vergara: Tracking Time
Photographic survey and text on the fate of New York’s Former Corn Exchange Bank Building.
Richard Murphy on Carlo Scarpa and the Castlevecchio Revisited
“Only directly can the rich sensory experience of his architecture be revealed: the unfolding of spaces and vista, the sounds of water, the movement of light on texture, the delight in the discovery of details, the touch of materials.”
Ambient: The Restoration of Ljubljana Castle
A selection of technical drawings from the archive of Slovenian bureau Ambient d.o.o.
Selected Projects: Cass School of Architecture 2019
Projects by Diploma Students from the summer of 2019
David Grandorge: Morpeth Road
A selection of photographs documenting the construction of a roof extension built by the photographer David Grandorge in Hackney, London.
Danila Tkachenko: The Living Dead
Interview - March 2019
Rebecca Dillon-Robinson: Linking the Unseen
A precis of a student project undertaken in the diploma studio of Pierre D’Avoine, Kingston School of Art, 2016
Site Specific: A Double Leaf Roof
Tuckey Design Studio’s refurbishment of an Italian Cascina includes a newly integrated roof structure.
James Brittain: Photographing the Painted Hall
Architectural photographer James Brittain on documenting this restored masterpiece in the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
Fred Scott: Building on the Built
Transcript of a talk, by the author of On Altering Architecture, given in May 2016 for the first Building on the Built event in London’s Kings Cross.
Francis Matthews: Urban Materials
Interview - February 2019
JEMS and Tomasz Trzupek: Painting the Project
A series of paintings by Tomasz Trzupek commissioned to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Polish practice JEMS.
Site Specific: 168 Upper Street
Webb Yates Engineers share their collaboration with Groupwork + Amin Taha to complete a Victorian urban block in Islington, London.
Hannibal Wasser: Coalitions
Konrad J Peter shares his thoughts on his digital collages.
Site Specific: USQUARE
BC Architects’ ongoing transformation of the former Ixelles barracks in Brussels.
Carson and Crushell Architects
Interview - August 2018
Aisling McCoy: and live the space of a door
A photographic investigation of Berlin’s Tempelhoff Airport.
Jonathan Tuckey: Build Around
A transcript of a talk given by Jonathan Tuckey at the Royal Academy of Arts as part of their “Knock Nothing Down” events programme.
Toby Parsloe: Berlin’s Tempelhoff
A short essay on the transformation of Berlin’s former airport.
Niall McCullough: The Art of the Possible - Irish Architecture in Transit
A short text by the architect Niall McCullough on interventional architecture.
Site Specific: A New Ruin
Catarina C Kohut on Eduardo Souto de Moura’s market hall in Braga, Portugal
Kraków Castle: Re-imagining St Michael’s and St George’s
Tomasz and Monika Trzupek share their paper project inspired by the never-built ‘Polish Acropolis”
Luca Galofaro: Writing by Images, Thinking by Images
“Collages are for me the shape of an idea, the story of a journey, a way of putting thoughts together.”
Selected Projects: London Metropolitan University, Unit 8, 2020
Projects by Diploma Students from the summer of 2020
Anna Orłowska: Futerał
Photographic survey and text on the contemporary status of Polish palaces.
Site Specific: A Stair for a London Town House
Decent Goodfellow Architects’s intervention within a grade II listed apartment in London creates new spatial sequence.
Site Specific: Dahua Cotton Mill
The transformation of Dahua Cotton Mill in north-west China.
Karin Borghouts: Cooking in a Pink Kitchen
A photographic investigation of the Fierenshoven Complex in Antwerp.
Tuckey Design Studio: Street Front Living
A speculative proposal for adapting the commonplace shopfront in light of the changing nature of the UK’s high streets.
Site Specific: The Montreal Biodôme
Photographer James Brittain introduces the recent restoration work carried out by KANVA and NEUF Architectes of the Montreal Biodôme, itself the transformation of a 1976 Olympic cycling stadium.
Site Specific: Stadt im die Raum
StudioDA’s installation at die Raum gallery in Berlin, 2019
Site Specific: 101 Spring Street
Donald Judd on the renovation of a cast iron commercial building in New York which he bought in 1969.
Site Specific: Vault House
Studio Ben Allen’s structural vaults transform a Yorkshire terrace house.
Site Specific: Cave di Arzo
Enrico Sassi Architetto’s work at the Arzo quarries in Ticino, Switzerland.
Archive: Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s
Dow Jones Architect’s digital sketchbook presents their project for refurbishing and extending a neglected Grade I listed church in West London.
Site Specific: Haus Russi, Andermatt
Baumann Lukas Arkitektur’s delicate alterations to a traditional dwelling in the village of Andermatt, Switzerland.
Revisited: Habitat 67
A transcript of the talk given by James Brittain at the opening of his exhibition of photographs taken at Montreal’s Habitat 67, the residential complex designed by the Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie.
Site Specific: Pele Tower House
Woollacott Gilmartin Architects work to transform an historic ensemble of buildings dating from the 14th century and located within the UK’s Lake District National Park.
Site Specific: Apartment in Gràcia
Parramon + Tahull arquitectes’ project for a light-filled apartment for a family of four in Barcelona.
Site Specific: Warehouse F, Lübeck
Ongoing work by Modersohn Freiesleben to transform a former warehouse in the docks of Lübeck, Germany.
Martin Kargruber: Genius Loci
An interview with German artist Martin Kargruber whose work explores craft, place and memory.
Site Specific: Grotto della Roccia
Enrico Sassi Architetto’s work at Lake Lugano, Switzerland.
Site Specific: Conversion of a Worker’s Villa
The reconfiguration and expansion of a house in Lausanne, Switzerland by Samir Alaoui Architectes.
Site Specific: Gasthaus Trauben
Werner Keller Architecture Office & Bach Mühle Fuchs work in Weinfelden, Switzerland to renovate an 19th century tavern.
Site Specific: J&R House
T O B Architect’s reconfiguration and extension of a family home in Dublin
Site Specific: Jardin des Joyeux
Wagon Landscaping transform an abandoned carpark into an urban oasis.
Site Specific: Vallirana 47
Vora Arquitectura’s refurbishment of a Barcelona apartment building uses an approach of ‘hybridisation’, repetition and elaboration.
Graham Mateer: Altered Images
Architect Graham Mateer shares his edited paintings.
Lynch Architects: Jankes Barn
An interview with Patrick Lynch on his practice’s refurbishment of an eighteenth century threshing barn in Essex.
Adolf Loos: Note on the Michaelerplatz House
“What is necessary as decoration should be honestly applied manually, which was the opinion of our old Baroque masters, in those happy times before there was any building law because each individual bore the law in his heart.”
OMMX: Changing Rooms
Case Study - Stele House
John Ruskin: On Restoration
“Neither by the public, nor by those who have the care of public monuments, is the true meaning of the word restoration understood.”
Fred Scott: On Interior Design
“Like the common cold, interior design, despite its prevalence, is lacking in definition.” A short essay by the designer, author and academic Fred Scott.
Christian Norberg-Schulz: Building in Old Settings
“Each building that we erect signifies a unique opportunity to rescue a part of our earth.”
Site Specific: Bótharbuí by Robin Walker
An ensemble of buildings, old and new, built as a holiday home by the architect Robin Walker in the 1960’s.
Fred Scott: The Double Ecstasy of Altering Architecture
On Altering Architecture by Fred Scott - Review
Pierre D’Avoine: Collaborative Practice
A short text by Pierre D’Avoine on his teaching practice and the possibilities of resistance offered to architecture by collaborative strategies.
34/44 Architects: Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Photographs of 1:20 scale physical models.
Site Specific: Holstebro Studios and Kitchen
Interventions in a former slaughterhouse in Denmark by Bo-Frost Architects.
Site Specific: Jean Moulin Atelier-House
Atelier NEA reconfigure a 1940’s artist’s atelier in Paris.
Site Specific: The Erechtheion
Architect Mariza Daouti on the many lives of the Erechtheion, part of the Acropolis in Athens.
Site Specific: A Typical Window
One of a family of new windows inserted into an existing bungalow in Dublin by Carson and Crushell Architects
University of Southern California: Observations and Adaptations
Drawings by Undergraduate Students from the summer of 2020.
Michał Pecko: Reinterpretations
Renaissance paintings through the eyes of Polish graphic designer Michał Pecko
Site Specific: Auf Berg I + II
Schneider Türscher share their work on a house and barn in the Rhine Valley. A project in two phases, one projected and one completed.
Site Specific: Stuttgarter Apartment
Atelier Fanelsa’s reconfiguration of a Berlin apartment, completed in 2019.
Site Specific: Bogen 131
Architects Lukas, Tobias and David Fink transform a railway arch into a new bicycle shop in Innsbruck, Austria.
Site Specific: House i
Architect Shunsuke Kimura presents his renovation of a Tokyo shop-cum-residence into a three family home.
Tamara Stoffers: Working Together
A selection of collages by the Dutch artist Tamara Stoffers
Jim Stephenson: Time and Motion
An excerpt from the presentation Jim Stephenson gave as part of our talks series back in December 2021.
Site Specific: Framework Apartment
Plattenbaustudio’s reconfiguration of a Berlin apartment to create a co-living space.
Site Specific: Holy Trinity Colden Common
Connolly Wellingham Architect’s interventions within a 19th century church near Winchester create new community facilities.
Site Specific: Sint Jakobstraat 23
STUDIOBONT’s ongoing work to reconfigure the historical home of the Conservatory of the City of Bruges.
50/50 Words for Reuse - A Manifesto
An extract from Graeme Brooker’s lexicon of reuse and transformation in architecture.
COSMOS - Reverse Perspective
Collages by Fred Scott, Liz Davis, Marina Sokolowa and Gleb Sobolev, taken from the exhibition Cosmos: Reverse Perspective curated by Gleb Sobolev and Pierre D’Avoine.
Gottfried Böhm: A Concern with Time
Izzy Farquharson on the Pritzker Prize-winning German architect Gottfried Böhm.
Site Specific: Spa Samedan
Miller and Maranta’s public baths in the Swiss town of Samedan
Marchand and Meffre: Only Time Will Tell
Jonathan Tuckey interviews the French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre about their work and influences.
Dow Jones Architects: The Garden Museum Pt. II
Design sketches for Dow Jones Architects’ expansion The Garden Museum in London.
Site Specific: House on the Roof
Ae-architecten’s rooftop extension of a derelict building in the heart of Ghent approaches completion.
Michael Wesely: Time Frames
To coincide with the publication of his new book, documenting the restoration of Mies van der Rohe’s Nationalgalerie, Berlin-based photographer Michael Wesely shares his thoughts on photography, time and imperfection.
Site Specific: Barbican Theatre Sunken Bars
K Bava Architects rejuvenate a pair of intimate bars tucked under the stairs of the Barbican Centre Theatre in London.
Selected Projects: ETSAV Studio 10 - Building on the Built
Architect Pere Buil and students from Barcelona’s ETSAV share projects investigating reuse and transformation.
T O B Architect: Practicing Scales
A conversation between Thomas O’Brien and Michael K Hayes
Site Specific: The Mercury Store
CO Adaptive’s re-working of a former metal foundry into a light-filled, adaptable theatre studio in Brooklyn, New York.
Haddon Hall: A Study
Work by students of Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, introduced by tutor Luke Nagle.
Kastler Skjeseth Architects: The Artefact Project
Norwegian practice Kastler Skjeseth outline a key component of their teaching practice; a three stage project of surveying, drawing and modelling fragments of existing buildings.
Selected Projects: Kingston School of Art
Projects by Undergraduate and Diploma Students from the Summer of 2019
Building on the Built: Tuckey Design Studio
An exhibition of the work of Jonathan Tuckey Design, Kings Cross 2016 and the first Building on the Built series of Talks.