Renovation
Renovation projects in architecture range from light refreshes to complete transformations, and this category covers them all. illustrarch features sustainable upgrades, interior overhauls, and structural interventions with photos and drawings. Learn how architects rework homes and buildings while keeping character, budget, and performance in balance.
Google Unveils New Renderings for Chicago’s Thompson Center Overhaul
Google's new renderings show a reworked atrium, staircase and public art for Chicago's Thompson Center, set to open in 2028.
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Zvonařka Bus Station by CH+K
CH+K renovated Brno's Zvonařka Bus Station, a 1980s Brutalist terminal, keeping its steel frame and concrete roof and adding a red wave-shaped pavilion...
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Phinney Mini by Best Practice Architecture
Phinney Mini by Best Practice Architecture reworks a 16.5 foot wide 1907 cottage in Seattle for a family of four, with two built...
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Inhabiting the Roof by Paris Atlas
Inhabiting the Roof by Paris Atlas turns two rainwater shedding roofs on a Montreuil house into a 36 m² timber terrace, reached by...
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Heritage “Ay” Kiln Adaptive Renewal by WUGE Studio & YFS
Heritage “Ay” Kiln Adaptive Renewal by WUGE Studio + YFS reinterprets a century-old dragon kiln site in Fujian through spatial clarity, material continuity,...
Begum Gumusel4 Mins read
Adaptive Reuse of the Michelin Factory by Kengo Kuma & Associates
Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled a proposal to transform the former Michelin factory in Clermont-Ferrand into a renewed cultural museum. Respecting the...
Elif Ayse Sen3 Mins read
Inverse Ruin: Reimagining an Ancient Temple Through Contemporary Intervention
A contemporary architectural installation at the Herakleia archaeological site in Policoro offers a radical reinterpretation of an ancient Dionysian temple. By suspending the...
Elif Ayse Sen2 Mins read
Seddülbahir Fortress Re-Use Project by KOOP Architects + AOMTD
Seddülbahir Fortress, restored after 26 years of multidisciplinary work, reopens as a powerful place of memory on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Combining conservation, archaeology,...
Elif Ayse Sen3 Mins read
