'Building for Change' collects the strategies of reuse together, demonstrating their power for change through groundbreaking projects from some of the world’s leading architects. From waste repurposed as construction materials, to buildings reworked with canny spatial interventions, and modular structures designed to be dismantled, discover how the architecture of creative reuse is helping us build a better tomorrow.
Why abandon buildings once they're no longer needed? A new book reveals the best projects finding new uses for factories, grain silos and market halls. For BBC Culture's new series Designed to Last, here are 10 of the most ingenious – and inspiring – spaces around the globe.
Nestled like a red question mark in the hills of rural Japan, the Kamikatsu Zero Waste Centre is a recycling facility like no other. A chunky frame of unprocessed cedar logs from the nearby forest supports a long snaking canopy, sheltering walls made of a patchwork quilt of 700 old windows and …
As ditching demolition in favour of reusing existing buildings becomes crucial in the face of climate change, Building for Change author Ruth Lang …
Architects are adapting existing buildings to create new spaces for a more conscious future.
'Building for Change' collects the strategies of reuse together, demonstrating their power for change through groundbreaking projects from some of the …
Aug 23, '22 10:00 AM EST The timing couldn’t be more urgent. As Lang notes, 80% of the buildings projected to exist in 2050, the year of the UN’s net …
The climate emergency has brought to the fore the problematic consequences of short-sighted architectural approaches, forcing us to re-evaluate …
Cape Town’s jewel of a building sitting pretty at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront continues to attract global attention.
