News Holy Water: Vacant Dutch church to become swimming pool Dutch companies MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have been selected to design a renovation of the St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, south east Netherlands, into a public swimming pool…
News Hagia Sophia to undergo most extensive refurbishment in 1,500 years The main dome of the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul is to undergo the most extensive restoration in its 1,488-year history. One of the main aims of the work…
News McDonald’s consultant charged with bribery by Hong Kong corruption watchdog A former construction consultant for McDonald’s has been charged with bribery after he allegedly accepted a US$10,000 watch. The case has been brought by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption…
Projects Funky office space in a 100-year-old air hangar A buildings-in-a-building renovation is underway at an historic airfield in the Swiss capital, Zurich, that will bring a cavernous, 100-year-old hangar back to life again for modern purposes. Established in…
News New York announces $500m plan to refurbish city’s iconic UN Plaza New York’s Mayor’s Office has announced that a $500m renovation and redevelopment project will take place at One and Two UN Plaza, which contains the Manhattan headquarters of the UN…
Trends Rise of the refurb: How Brussels is saying no to new-builds Two landmark office-tower refurbs in the Belgian capital saved thousands of tonnes of waste and emissions, and showed developers’ appetite for ‘urban mining’. GCR went to investigate Amid the torrent…
News Herzog & de Meuron to turn a brutalist icon into Sotheby’s New York HQ Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron and New York’s PBDW Architects have been selected to renovate 945 Madison Avenue in New York City into the headquarters of art broker Sotheby’s.…
News OMA to renovate Perth’s mid-century brutalist concert hall The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected by the government of Western Australia to work with local architect WITH on the refurbishment of the Perth Concert Hall. The…
News $9bn overhaul begins at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Construction has begun on a $9bn expansion and renovation project at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), the world’s second busiest by passenger traffic. The first phase of the DFW…
News Paris’ Pompidou Centre to be given a €186m facelift The Pompidou Centre in central Paris is due to close for five years from the summer of 2025 while renovation works take place. These will include upgrades to the 1977…
News MVRDV transforms 19th-century Amsterdam building into EV outlet Chinese EV-maker Nio has opened a flagship European showroom in a 19th-century insurance building in Amsterdam. The building on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht was built in 1891 for the New York Life…
News OMA-designed art space opens in former Detroit warehouse The mixed-use Lantern space, designed by Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has opened to the public in Detroit’s east village. The 22,300 sq ft structure was built in the…
News Zaha Hadid Architects designs renovation of modernist Monaco tower Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has planned a renovation of Le Schuylkill Tower, a modernist residential development in Monte Carlo. The 1963 structure contains 188 homes ranging from studio flats to…
News Ghent industrial site to be converted into residential development by KCAP A former industrial site will be transformed by Dutch architect KCAP into a kilometer-long urban housing development within a park. The Rinkkaai project is located 400m from Ghent’s central Gent-Sint-Peters…
News Designs unveiled for Bayeux Tapestry’s new home UK-headquartered architect RSHP has unveiled its designs for the Bayeux Tapestry museum, which has occupied Bayeux’s 17th Century Grand Séminaire for the last 40 years. The new museum will be…
News Haworth Tompkins and ARCO win Finnish theatre expansion UK architect Haworth Tompkins and Finnish studio ARCO have won a competition to rebuild a theatre in the town of Kouvola in southeastern Finland. The plan is to retain the…
News University to turn 1980s LA shopping mall into cutting-edge labs The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has bought a disused shopping mall in West Los Angeles for $700m to turn it into a cutting edge research hub. With $500m…
News Nineties Berlin film studio has sequel as bright yellow office building Construction has been completed on the redevelopment of a Berlin film studio into offices, designed by Dutch architect MVRDV and Germany’s Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten. The Berliner Union Film Ateliers, a…