Copper Architecture Forum magazine 32/2012 published
The Regeneration Issue
This entire issue is dedicated to the ingenuity of architects in regenerating the environments that we live and work in. Preserving and adapting existing buildings and townscapes to suit new uses is sustainable, saving on resources and making the most of assets. But it also carries with it a challenge for designers in developing their particular interpretation of history and context for the 21st century.
Articles
10 Weymouth Street, UK
Make has transformed a relatively undistinguished six storey 1960s block in the heart of the Harley Street Conservation Area of London’s Fitzrovia into a highly distinctive refurbishment scheme, which increases the residential accommodation and gives...
Svalbard Science Centre, Norway
The project was commissioned through an invited competition. The new structure is an addition to an existing university and research building, which is extended to about 4 times its original size.
De Young Memorial Museum, USA
A new superlative in façade construction was created on the West Coast of America with the unique façade design that we have come to expect of the Herzog & de Meuron team. Never before has so much copper been used to clad a building. Thousands of...
Tapiola Group PK2, Finland
New Head Office - Tapiola, which today is a regional centre in the City of Espoo, was originally planned in the 1950s as a garden town in southern Espoo, some 12 km from downtown Helsinki. Tapiola was built up gradually over the years since the 1960s...
Paradise Street, UK
Located in the Duke Street Conservation Area of Liverpool City centre, at the corner of Hanover Street and School Lane, the building fully occupies its tight triangular site.
Royal Windsor Quay, UK
Royal Windsor Quay benefits from a world class location on the south side of the River Thames against the backdrop of Windsor Castle. It was our aim to create a high quality residential development for Windsor whose contemporary design looks to the future rather than merely imitating the varying local vernacular.
Urbis, UK
As Manchester's Millenium Project, Urbis is a landmark building providing space for exhibitions and other cultural activities. Its design responds to the island site, following the street edge and turning back on itself to define the entrance and form a sheltering backdrop to a new landscaped public space.
Gorey Civic Offices and Library, Ireland
With its narrow streets and simple vernacular buildings; Gorey embodies the archetypical Irish crossroads market town, and the scheme has been deliberately crafted to respond to these characteristics. This new Public Square will be the first major public space within the town and is unquestionably the focal point of the scheme.
Hotel Grenzfall, Germany
Located directly near the 'Berlin Wall Documentary Centre' and the 'Berlin Wall Memorial', the project includes the refurbishment of an old 8-storey-building from the 1970s to a hotel, two new entrance-buildings and a bistro along the Ackerstrasse in Berlin-Mitte.
