Spatial intervention
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News • News • 13 Apr 2023
MAD Architects bring colorful vitality to an abandoned market building in China
MAD Architects recently completed the ‘Timeless Beacon’, a fishing net art installation that lightly wraps the abandoned Taiping market building in Guangdong, China. Ma Yansong, founder and principal partner of the emerging practice, was invited by Guangdong Nanhai Art Field to bring new life to the once flourishing market during the late Ming dynasty.
Lu Yu
Taiping Xu, a bustling marketplace founded in the late Ming dynasty and active until the 1980s, had become the largest abandoned site in Taiping. Over time, the urbanization of the area drew young people away to the rapidly expanding city across the river, leaving behind only a few. Moreover, online retail had dealt a severe blow to physical market spaces, further... More
News • News • 26 Jan 2023
Martin Lejarraga Architecture Office contemporarily refurbishes an apartment building in Spain
Martin Lejarraga Architecture office completes a contemporary refurbishment of an old 20th-century apartment building in Cartagena, Spain. Delicias Building embraces the city as a work that brings life to the surroundings through a controlled action that is both modern and distinctive.
David Frutos
The project seeks to draw attention to the unique features of the existing structure to revive the building and its urban surroundings. The proposal restores the original construction by identifying and preserving the building's historical and architectural characteristics.
David Frutos
The refurbishment follows as a continuous, integral intervention carried out in two complementary layers. The first layer correlates to th... More
Project • By RED ARQUITECTOS • Offices
TRASPATIO
Backyard is a community project. It is the rehabilitation of historical elements and contemporary intervention of a 19th century building on 5 Sur Street in the Historic Center of the city of Puebla, converting it from abandoned space to a mixed-use project whose program consists of 3 apartments in the upper floor of the house and commercial spaces on the ground floor. The lateral patio and the backyard of the house becomes a space for public use for entertainment and is where the intervention of a flying metal box for use in commercial space is disturbed.
Published by: RED ARQUITECTOS
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Project • By INNOCAD architecture • Exhibitions
History Museum Graz - Schaudepot
The client, a public institution in the Austrian region, Styria, needed a fresh concept for the History Museum’s permanent exhibitions and its entrance, housed within a significant historic building at Graz’s city center. The task was to present an enormous number of objects acquired since the Middle Ages and multimedia archives of the 20th century in an historic space that required careful treatment.
The adaptation of the museum entrance required a solution that subtly enhance the entrance attraction of a previously very hidden and dark atrium. A custom iron “carpet” was laid over historic stone flooring with an aim to direct and offer a platform for exploration. The lighting installation above is created by Austri... More