Water Tower
Architectural projects exploring towers as functional and symbolic structures in urban and natural landscapes.
Water towers and tower typologies have long served as essential infrastructure and landmarks in cities and regions. Designers approach these structures as opportunities to integrate practical systems with distinctive forms, whether repurposing existing towers or creating new ones.
The community explores adaptive reuse of historic towers, stacked residential and mixed-use designs, water management and purification facilities, and the transformation of industrial or communications infrastructure into public amenities and observation spaces.
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Eek en Dekkers Strip a Nijmegen Water Tower to Its Concrete Frame and Wrap It in a Thin New Skin
At the foot of De Oversteek bridge in Nijmegen, a former rayon mill's water tower trades its crumbling walls for a thin new shell and a café inside.
The Tower: An Opera House That Gives Its Ground Back to the City
Lyric Barnik and Chris Qiu stack Tallinn's opera program vertically, compressing its footprint to liberate the waterfront as civic space.
ASA Studio Stacks Offices and Apartments in a Naturally Ventilated Brick Tower Above Kigali's Rooftops
A five-storey mixed-use building in Kacyiru proves that local materials and passive cooling can replace air conditioning in dense urban Africa.
Sauerbruch Hutton Applies Kintsugi Logic to a 1970s Telecom Tower in Konstanz
A 62-meter office relic near Lake Constance becomes 98 apartments, with its scars turned into a polychrome civic landmark.
