You don’t always need to destroy to build, sometimes you can
rebuild or add to. The following buildings are examples of where the designers,
owners or keepers have decided that the heritage of the site is more deserving
than a a stark, new modern structure.
ROM, Toronto, Canada
Known as ‘The Crystal’ or the ‘Lee Chin Crystal’ (after its
lead donor Michael Lee Chin) is the new entrance to the ROM (Royal Ontario
Museum). Designed by Daniel Libeskind, completed in 2007. The aluminum and
glass facade sits on a steel frame and wraps itself around the existing
heritage structure of the ROM without actually touching it. A great example of
deconstructivist architecture, and how careful consideration for what came
before, plus an awareness for change can lead to a lovely symbiosis. [ROM]
Saustall Schaustall, Zurich, Switzerland
This is the kind of architecture that it’s easy to fall in
love with! Architects of Stuttgart renovated with 18th Century pigsty, pulling
it from the brink of crumbling into a fully habitable space. Superb work!
Shortlisted for the 2005 AR Award for Emerging Architecture.
Bunker 599, Amsterdam, Holland
This is simply stunning. Not exactly what we would call
comfortably habitable, but then it isn’t meant to be. Bunker 599 by Dutch practices
Atelier de Lyon and Rietveld Landscape is an incision more than a renovation,
destruction more than restoration. Used as a military defense from 1815 until
1940, has quite literally been sliced in 2 as part of a visitor attraction to
the NDW (New Dutch Waterline). This is as stark as it is beautiful, and a great
example of how change can be good, and how adaptation can breathe new life into
old buildings! Via [DesignBoom].
Courtesy: habitables.wordpress.com
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