Post industrial architecture

Image 4 of 40 from gallery of Jiuli Workspace Creative Industry Center / Architect+ Architectural Design Studio. Photograph by Zhongrui Shao

the design team at ruisánchez arquitectes breathes new life into the historic factory while celebrating its industrial heritage.

The former soviet states are littered with half-finished buildings and projects cut short by the collapse of the Soviet Union. High schools, factories, apartment complexes: some of the buildings stand abandoned for years, stripped of their valuables and left

This work is the first part of the big project of transformation of a part of the industrial territory of the Plant of Plastics Fabric. This is type of public…

Welsh + Major transformed an imposing building designed in the early 1880’s into a café/restaurant, celebrating the qualities of the original building and breathing life into the adjacent public domain.

Latz + Partner: With some 100 projects, the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park (IBA) in the Ruhr District was attempting to set quality building and planning standards for the environmental, economic and social transformation of an old industrialised region. The landscape park Duisburg Nord is one of these projects: The existing patterns and fragments formed […]

Adaptive reuse has gotten newfound attention towards its ability to both conserve heritage and make use of what’s already..

Ricardo Bofill is the enigmatic free-thinker behind some of the world’s boldest, brightest buildings. Now his vivid retro-utopian vision is capturing a new audience

Image 3 of 28 from gallery of A Photographic Journey Through Zollverein: Post-Industrial Landscape Turned Machine-Age Playground. Photograph by Gili Merin

Image 22 of 28 from gallery of A Photographic Journey Through Zollverein: Post-Industrial Landscape Turned Machine-Age Playground. Photograph by Thomas Mayer_Archive