Old buildings, new designs : architectural transformations

Old Buildings: Appeal of Old Buildings; Familiar Idioms; The Urge to Preserve; Buildings have finite useful Lives; Not everything old is good; Interventions ; Sustainable Urban Environments: Critical Components for Urban Sustainability; Reuse and Repurposing of Old Buildings; Public Policy; Will smart growth take place?; Sustainable Design Implications ; Design Propositions: The Question of Context; Lessons from History; Design Integrity; Contrast; Critical Viewpoints; Exemplary Work ; Project Execution: Stakeholders; Expectations; Design Difficulties; Building in the Already-Built Environment; Succesful Execution ; Haworth Tompkins: Dovecote Studio, Snape maltings, Suffolk, England, 2009, inbuild, prefab indsat i ruin ; MAD Architects: Hutong Bubble 32, Beijing, Kina, 2009 ; KLab Architects: Bar Guru Bar, Athens, Grækenland, 2005, infill ; Architects Collective: Ozuluama Penthouse, Mexico City, Mexico, 2008 ; Markus Scherer and Walter Dietl: Il Forte di Fortezza, Fortezza, Italien, 2007, fortifikationer, tilbygninger, transformation ; ODOS Architects: Knocktopher Friary, Knocktopher, Irland, 2006, klostre, tilbygninger ; Jensen & Macy Architects: Walden Studios, Geyserville, Californien, USA, 2006, konvertering til nye formål, transformation, tilbygninger ; Studio Daniel Libeskind: Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA, 2008, museer ; Renzo Piano Building Workshop, New York, USA, 2006, biblioteker, tilbygninger, infill ; Tham & Videgård: Moderna Museet Malmö, Sverige, 2009, museer, infill, tilbygninger ; Herzog & de Meuron: CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spanien, 2008, onfill ; Office of Charles Bloszies: 1 Kearney Street, San Francisco, USA, 2009, tilbygninger ; Foster + partners: Hearst Tower, New York, USA, 2006, onfill ; Santos Prescott & Ass.: Village Street Live-Work, Somerville, USA, 2006, konvertering til nye formål, transformation ; Merkx + Girod Architects: Selexys Dominicanen Bookshop, Maastricht, Holland, 2006, konvertering til nye formål, transformation, kirker, butikker ; Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (1999), KMD Architects, Jensen & Macy Architects, David Meckel (1996): California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA ; Brand + Allen Architects: 185 Post Street, San Francisco, USA, 2008 ; Edouard Francois: Hotel Fouquets Barriere, Paris, Frankrig, 2006 ; Office of Charles Bloszies: Recycled batteries, Pacific Coast, USA, unbuilt