Tagged Transformation

Architecture practice Craftworks has transformed a formerly derelict chapel into a new guest house for a family in Camberwell, London. Described as "unbeatable", The Chapel is this year's winner of the Don...

Canadian architecture firm Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes (MSDL) has converted Montréal‘s former Dow Planetarium into the new headquarter of Centech, a business incubator that aims to suppor...

Canadian practice StudioAC has designed this minimalistic loft inside of a converted church in the east end of Toronto, Canada. The result of this conversion is major variation from unit to unit, most of whic...

Canadian practice StudioAC has converted a century-old, three-story brick building in Toronto into The Annex boutique hotel. The building was originally built as horse stables with industrial steel structure an...

Kraków-based practice Theza Architects has recently converted a single-story office building into a light-filled duplex loft in Sosnowiec, Poland. The existing office space had very few windows - providing ...

Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has recently transformed a former 1946 garage in Madrid into the new Ròmola restaurant and café. While the original volume and structure remain intact, the experimental restau...

Atelier Barda has converted a building that once housed two apartments above a grocery store into a single-family home, Résidence Villeneuve. The façade consists of two wood-framed storefront windows on eith...

ARX2 Studio has recently converted a historic building located in the center of Milan into the new Babila Hostel. The intervention, agreed with the Soprintendenza of the Monuments of Milan, maintains unaltere...

Italian firm Studio DiDeA has recently converted a former brick manufacturing facility located in a historical building in downtown Palermo into a tiny loft with clever storage and space-saving solutions featu...

New York-based design studio New Affiliates has transformed a former industrial space in the increasingly trendy neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, often shortened to Bed-Stuy, into a minimalistic loft. New ...

After an extensive three-year renovation project a 19th-century former prison has been turned into Hotel Liberty – a contemporary retreat in the German city of Offenburg. Originally conceived by the German ar...

Portuguese practice Extrastudio has transformed a former winery in a small village south of Lisbon, built by the client’s grandparents at the beginning of the 20th century, into a modern family home with re...

Built originally for a single family, and abandoned for decades, this old house in Porto has been transformed by local firm Fala Atelier into five small apartments with deep blue doors and furniture, and pos...

Initially built as a small storage space, this shed — now renamed La Colombière (Dovery) — was later rearranged by Canadian practice YH2 architecture into a forest refuge that reminds a bird huts. In...

ORA Architects has recently transformed a acient house with a Renaissance core from the 16th century, which has been damaged many times over the years, into an modern guest house located in the former Jewish qu...

Architect Vincent Parreira has converted a 19th century photography studio into two apartments in the historic center of Paris. The clients, two siblings, own these two contiguous apartments, which share the ...

Vienna-based practice smartvoll has transformed a former tank station in the Austrian city of Salzburg in this modern loft apartment. Architects of smartvoll came out as winners at the internationally advertis...

Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism has recently transformed an early 20th century townhouse into two high-end apartments by radically opening it up. Situated in the center of Rotterdam, the Matryoskha Hou...

Lebanese Studio Etienne Bas has recently converted a parking spot for a residential building into a 20 sqm pastry shop for Des Choux et Des Idees. Integrating the retail and the street experience, the architec...

Portuguese Pedro Ferreira Architecture Studio has recently converted an old typography in Porto, built in the 19th-century and abandoned for decades, in a set of six apartments, maintaining all the structure an...

This former garment factory in Bethnal Green has been recently converted by architecture studio paper House Project into a modern apartment for a young couple.  James Davies, founder of Paper House Project, Â...