Old Buildings New Designs: Architectural Transformations (Architecture Briefs)

About this book

Increasingly architects are hired to design new work for existing structures. Whether for reasons of preservation sustainability or cost-effectiveness the movement to reuse buildings presents a variety of design challenges and opportunities. Old Buildings New Designs is an Architecture Brief devoted to working within a given architectural fabric from the technical issues that arise from aging construction to the controversy generated by the various project stakeholders to the unique aesthetic possibilities created through the juxtaposition of old and new.