Conservation Architecture
POSArchitecture that preserves cultural heritage, historical sites, and community identity through adaptive reuse and restoration.
Offhand Practice Folds a Natural History Cabinet of Curiosities into a Concrete Shell at Aranya Guangzhou
A 155 m² specimen shop at Jiulong Lake, Guangzhou, where walnut cabinetry and collected antiques sit inside raw concrete without pretending to be old.
LBWA Renovates a 1930s Modernist Villa in Poznań by Keeping Its Original Floors and Tuning Rooms to the Sun
Next to Poznań's Abisynia estate, a 220 m² interwar villa gets limestone, green marble and brass, laid quietly over its surviving floors and joinery.
Atempo Arquitectura Turns a Cuenca Family House into a Multi-Unit Residence Crowned in Brick Lattice
In Cuenca, Ecuador, a 415 m² family home becomes a residential complex where scrolled ironwork, terracotta lattice and a skylit stair keep memory alive.
MACh Architects and Connatural Build a Park-Territory to Help Córrego do Feijão Stay Rooted After the Dam Collapse
In Córrego do Feijão, Brazil, a slatted lookout tower, brick halls and stone gardens give a community scarred by disaster a reason to remain.
Studio Kennon Wraps a Portsea Family House Around a Light Court Built to Weather the Southern Ocean
In Portsea, a three-part house of board-formed concrete, lime render and salvaged Sorrento limestone is designed to age with salt air.
Bastidas Architecture Turns a Former Printing Press in Artà into a Courtyard Family Home
In Artà, Spain, a 700 m² former printing press becomes a family home organised around an arcaded courtyard, a narrow pool and a single palm tree.
Beczak / Beczak / Architekci Wraps a Multigenerational Konstancin House Around a Courtyard Among Pines
In Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland, a sintered-stone house turns away from the street and opens a semi-atrium courtyard to a wooded slope.
graciastudio Adds Steel and Board-Formed Concrete to a Historic House in Mexico City's Colonia Roma
In Mexico City's Roma neighborhood, Casa Tonalá restores a patterned historic facade and threads a black steel stair through a concrete light well.
The Zabaleen Melting Pot: Recycling as Architecture in Cairo's Informal Waste Quarter
A vertical recycling complex in Manshiyet Nasser makes waste infrastructure visible, turning material flows into public space and urban identity.
The Amber Palace Opera: A Geological Fiction Surfaces on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Pierre Brillard reimagines a Baltic legend as a public landscape, opera house, and waterfront promenade rooted in Tallinn's coastal identity.
Aquatic Beacon: A Modular Underwater Research Community on the Great Barrier Reef
Speculative underwater architecture positions scientific research and habitation directly within a threatened marine ecosystem off Australia's Pacific coas
Continental Shelf Recycling Habitat: Architecture Grown from Ocean Waste
A speculative underwater settlement transforms a submerged sinkhole and accumulated marine debris into the foundation for modular, expandable habitation.
