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A designer's refuge

A few years ago, French designer Erwan Bourroulec bought a dilapidated farmhouse in Burgundy. He spent two years working with Vuarnesson Architectes to renovate it.

Architectural intelligence

At a time when reason and foresight are becoming less influential in world affairs, this Architecture Biennale may be just the response we need. Carlo Ratti, the Biennale Director, will be staging his exhibition “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective” at the Giardini and the Arsenale, as well as many other locations in Venice, from 10 May 2025. Will this Architecture Biennale offer fresh insights into the critical issues of our time?

A pair of buildings in brick-red

On the site of the historic Winternitz Mill in the Czech city of Pardubice, Šépka Architekti have accommodated two uses in very contrasting structures. However, the brick-red colour palette helps to give the building a unified appearance.

Roof ellipse

The extension with lift and foyer completes the south side of the Document Kepler in Regensburg and provides barrier-free access to the new interactive exhibition. Its elliptical roof is striking.

Dialogue between eras

The renovation of a detached house from the end of the 19th century in Madrid is Janus-faced: the historic street facade has been completely preserved, while the courtyard facade and interiors are essentially new. Typologically, the building nevertheless returns to its roots.

Clever strategy

When renovating the multi-purpose hall in German Ingerkingen, Baden-Württemberg, Atelier Kaiser Shen took inspiration from the image of a Chinese bowl: multiple repairs give the building its unique charm.

Fast construction, high quality

Commissioned by the Andrea Boccelli Foundation, BDR Bureau from Turin has designed a simple wooden building for 70 children, with many interior surprises.

Old building with modern canopy

The Santos coffee warehouse in Rotterdam's Rijnhaven is currently being renovated by Renner Hainke Wirth Zirn Architecten and WDJarchitecten. Originally planned as a design store for furniture, the Dutch Museum of Photography will now move in.

Facelift with a deep impact

Behind the traditional stepped gables of a detached house near Ghent, Objekt Architecten has created a bright, spacious and surprisingly contemporary interior.

Carefully extended

Stanton Williams have extended Emmanuel College in Cambridge to include student accommodation, a bar and teaching rooms. As is usual in Cambridge, the building project took place on a historic site and required a great deal of sensitivity in terms of heritage conservation.

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Traces of the past

In Ingolstadt, Mühlbauer renovated a 16th-century town farmhouse and converted it into a four-unit residential building – a successful contrast of old and new.

Layers of time

In Saitama, Japan, Unemori Architects have converted a complex of buildings into a residential building, preserving the existing architecture so that it reflects the passage of time.

Light towers for a long-distance effect

Buchner Bründler Architekten have converted a warehouse on the Dreispitz site near Basel into an art gallery. Three striking light towers now rise above the old building, bringing light into the interior and stabilising the roof structure.

Continuation of the story

In the Barnim district, Christoph Wagner Architekten (CWA) in collaboration with Wenke Schladitz have converted a Mark Brandenburg farmhouse into a residential building with a goldsmith's studio, preserving the existing layers of history.

Living between time and space

In Albisheim, a village in the Palatinate, Piertzovanis Toews have renovated a listed barn and transformed it into a small architectural landscape of colourful huts.

Müther's largest roof

The Hyparschale in Magdeburg is the largest surviving building designed by the architect and engineer Ulrich Müther. Over the past five years, gmp Architekten have renovated the listed building and transformed it into a modern event centre.