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Light and Air opens up Z House in Brooklyn to the outdoors

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The home in the leafy Clinton Hill neighbourhood was bought by a family of four with roots in India and required a complete gut renovation to open up the spaces to the outside. Local studio Light and Air has introduced a light-filled void at the centre of a Brooklyn townhouse as part of a major reconfiguration and extension project.

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Before & After: A Couple Give a Treasured Family Home a Fresh Start—Furniture and All

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In São Paulo, architect Alexandre Skaff restores fixtures and furniture while updating a midcentury home that once belonged to his husband’s grandmother. Renovations are always a challenge—but layer on iconic architecture, decades of family memories, and a personal relationship with the client, and a project becomes something else entirely.

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Adaptive Reuse: 7 Modern Offices Renovated From Abandoned Buildings

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From small to large sites, light to heavy renovations, the projects in this collection strategically marry the advantages of industrial buildings and modern workspaces. Old limestone walls and timber members are restored and left exposed, adding a strong industrial flavor to the spaces. Jury Winner, 2018 A+Awards, Architecture +Stairs.

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Fifteen landmark projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner David Chipperfield

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Find out more about Ciutat de la Justícia › Neues Museum, 2009, Germany David Chipperfield Architects and Julian Harrap Architects renovated Berlin's 19th-century Neues Museum on Museum Island in 2009. The renovation and restoration of the buildings were completed in collaboration with conservation studio Julian Harrap Architects.

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David Chipperfield wins 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize

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Cementing him as a go-to architect for civic and cultural buildings, this led his studio on to creating landmark buildings including the Hepworth in Wakefield in 2011, Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri in 2013, the Museo Jumex in Mexico City in 2013 and James Simon Galerie in Berlin in 2018.

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ROOVICE

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Koichi was born in 1994 and graduated in 2018 from Chiba University (Japan). From 2018 until 2021, he worked at a house maker company before joining ROOVICE in 2021, becoming a second-class architect. Founded in 2005, the Yokohama-based office Roovice specializes in renovating and restoring vacant houses.

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David Alan Chipperfield announced as Pritzker Architecture Laureate 2023

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James-Simon-Galerie (Berlin, Germany, 2018) situated on a narrow island along the Kupfergraben canal and accessible by the Schlossbrücke bridge, serves as the gateway to Museum Island. We choose ourselves, and the concept of only protecting the best is not enough.