Restorations

San Ignacio is a renovation and expansion project of a dwelling located in the state of Nayarit in Mexico. The client's request was to renovate the existing building in poor condition and the construction of two new volumes, one that could serve as a flexible space for photo shoots and other creative expressions, and the second as an outdoor living space in direct relationship with the pool

20/A: this is how the Messner Architects studio named the project for the artist Hannes Egger at 20/A Am Gries, in the historic center of Luna, a place for thought and work, retreat and exchange

In Spain, an old building in the city center is completely renovated and transformed into the new Getafe Student Residence. The challenge of the project is its total renewal with the smallest budget to make the investment as attractive and advantageous as possible

Monumental spaces of a seventeenth-century monastery transformed into a hotel, preserving intact the charm of the ancient architecture and the atmosphere of peace and meditation, crowned by a spa in the garden that laps the shores of the lake

Restoration of 8 floors, 150sqm each, of a residential building built in 1872. The name of the 27+14 project derives from the exhumation of 14 splendid Nolla mosaics and 27 plumbing pieces of great chromatic richness discovered by stripping the building of all its posthumous interventions

In the heart of Rotterdam on Hofplein, the new headquarters of Unilever Benelux occupies six floors of a 1960s concrete-framed building designed by architect C.A. Abspoel. The new Unilever plant will house about 750 employees

“Bedroom in the middle” is the renovation project of a low-light apartment in the center of Amsterdam, featuring a series of small rooms, into a pied a terre embellished with fine finishes ideal for a couple who frequent the city on weekends

In 2021, at the Boutique Hotel "I Bastioni San Domenico", it feels like diving into 1517, when three friars from S. Domenico arrived in Gallipoli with the task of founding their own community. Here on the rooftop terrace of the Boutique Hotel "I Bastioni San Domenico", overlooking the sea, the project A.D. 1517 was born

Dynamic and futuristic, the renovation of the Citic Square, a two-decade-old shopping center in Shanghai, transforms it into a modern-style destination. Breaking the square silhouette of the shopping center through "pixels" that seem to float, the new architecture integrates with the historical surroundings, opening up new vistas and possibilities.

Apartment H is located along Medena Street in a 1940s building in the historic part of Bratislava. The three-room dwelling lacks the high ceilings and axial enfilade typical of surrounding apartments dating from the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918 - 1938). Despite this, with its rational layout, the apartment remains evocative of these same spatial principles

In Milan, the Bistrot of the Casa degli Artisti is the beating heart of the residence: meeting place, filter of access to the magnificent garden, element of reference for the public and domestic hearth of its inhabitants

A house for a brother and sister. A house, but not quite: a place with a free identity, which is not identified from the role of dwelling while remaining a space for relationships where memories can be built

From the passionate search for the right property in the area surrounding the upper Valdarno (Arezzo) comes Lavanda in Valdarno, the renovation project developed for a couple of clients for the realization of two buildings, both distributed on two levels: a larger one, the "villa," for the family and the other somewhat smaller, the "barn," a precious guest house

In São Pedro de Rates, Portugal, an existing stone house in dilapidated condition but with historically valuable elements is transformed into the Rates House, doubling its size and offering the developer a valuable home

Contaminations is a renovation project of a 90-square-meter apartment in which the precious boiserie distributes and at the same time hides the spaces of the house

SPINTO (POUSSé) is the project to enlarge the house in which a couple with two children have been living for 5 years in Montrouge

From an old mountain chalet in northern Italy comes Casa Giaglione, which, equipped with autonomous housing units, proposes a new use of common spaces for leisure and smart working, rethought to give life to shared premises that can be aggregated with each other through co-housing modalities. In the Susa Valley, the foundations are being laid for a new return to small rural and mountain centers

The Central Office stands on Metalo street in Kirtimai, an urban municipality in Vilnius, Lithuania. Its new appearance celebrates the name of the street to which it belongs and the functionality of the building, which in an almost ascetic manner rejects decoration for its own sake

"If you're going to go through all these problems, then you're going to want to live there," Daniela Holt Voith, founding partner and design director of Voith & Mactavish Architects, tells her client, referring to the renovation. The early 20th-century barn, used until the intervention as a play and guest space, is adjacent to the farmhouse that has been the family's main home for 25 years

On Stefanikova Street, city of Trnava, an old housing building of Gothic origin, with added Baroque elements, was partially reconstructed in 1930 and expanded by a separate south wing

Villa Mylae was born from the renovation and recasting of two pre-existing buildings, one in masonry from the late nineteenth century, recklessly remodeled over time, and the other in more recent reinforced concrete, born unauthorized then sanitized, and without any architectural connotation. The particular constraining and landscape conditions, combined with the foresight of the client, allowed for design experimentation in an integral and integrated logic

A house for all seasons is the architectural design for the renovation of an apartment at Lido di Spina in the province of Ferrara, Italy

The imagination of two friends and their two daughters makes AM House reinterpret the space of a house in the center of the city of Vila-real. A space attentive to the needs of a new generation without forgetting the past that still lingers. The spatial fluidity and warmth of materials together with the guidance of natural light show how to inhabit the house

After years of neglect, the Watertower on the Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht has been given a new use: an exclusive six-story residence in the former cistern, three apartments in the lower part of the tower, and a commercial space on the ground floor

A low-cost renovation project, based in Bangalore, India, transforms Scaffold House from a building with three apartments to two duplex houses

Casa Troviscal, in Portugal, in the village of the same name with its still predominantly rural character, was not an architectural model of the most erudite, but it had character.
In a landscape of isolated, often single-story houses interspersed with agricultural fields, the building to be restored throws a new challenge to designers

Cal Fuster, a late 15th-century building in the fortified square that was the origin of the town, is being transformed into a single-family dwelling. In addition to the restoration of the original facades, an interesting system of consolidation from the inside brings it back to life by restoring efficiency to the existing materials and interior distribution

The renovation involves a Goshiwon (a shared house) built of red brick in 1990 at the foot of Seoul Namsan Mountain that is being transformed into the Piknic 2020 Cultural center: a complex cultural venue that coexists with a cinema hall, bar, restaurant, and designer stores

Removing all non-original elements added over the years in order to enhance the original character and beauty of the house, floors and furniture was the main concept in designing Ca'n Rei, which was then enriched with new contemporary elements

A quadrangular building, measuring 6 meters on a side, 5 meters high, the ruined tower is an integral element of the romantic garden of Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo (CO) probably built by Sommariva in the early 1800s. Its recovery and restoration consists of a first phase of careful cleaning and securing work