Old Buildings New Designs – Architectural Transformations

Description

ISBN: 9781616890353
Title: Old Buildings New Designs – Architectural Transformations
Author: BLOSZIES CHARLES

Increasingly, architects are hired to design new work for existing structures. Whether for reasons of preservation, sustainability, or cost-effectiveness, the movement to reuse buildings presents a variety of design challenges and opportunities. Old Buildings, New Designs is an Architecture Brief devoted to working within a given architectural fabric from the technical issues that arise from aging construction to the controversy generated by the various project stakeholders to the unique aesthetic possibilities created through the juxtaposition of old and new.

Format: Trade Paper
Publication date: 20/11/2011