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What you can do with old concrete buildings

March 18, 2023
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The National Centre for Dance in Paris is an award winning adaptation of a 1973 council building.

The Administrative Centre of Pantin by Jacques Kalisz and Jean Perrottet (1973)

In 2005 Atelier Robain Guieysse developed the buildings into modern dance facilities.

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“Gradually shift the conversation from creation to transformation”

February 27, 2022
by admin with No Comment CommercialEurope

“We need to consider and also work from existing architecture – and gradually shift the conversation from creation to transformation” – Michal Kristof of studio Chybik + Kristof, talking about their redesign of Brno’s 1988 Zvonařka Bus Terminal, which was in danger of demolition.  

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