Conversion

The Tribune Tower is one of Chicago’s most treasured historic landmarks. Originally constructed in 1925 and designed by Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells, the tower was located adjacent to an existing printing plant. In 1935, the Radio Building was added to the site, followed by the Television Building in 1950. In 2018, the Chicago Tribune vacated the building and SCB was engaged to convert the 34-story Chicago landmark office tower and surrounding buildings into 162 luxury condominium units.  Darris Lee Harris Photography Dave Burk The tower’s historic façade was preserved and restored, ensuring its continued architectural stature. Historically sensitive enhancements to the Radio and TV buildings support... More

Swiss architecture and design studio Evolution Design has converted the former Neue Zürcher Zeitung print works into a dynamic multi-use hub with offices, event venues, and leisure facilities known as JED. The last phase of the conversion sees the opening of the restaurant Eve’s Kitchen. Evolution Design / Peter Wuermli Evolution Design / Peter Wuermli What formerly consisted of the printing centre’s workshop, storage area and changing rooms has been transformed into the gastronomic heart of up-and-coming Schlieren, in a cool, contemporary surrounding dominated by a striking and flamboyant illustration of Eve – the restaurant’s fictional hostess – created by award-winning illustrator Gregory Gil... More

This is the fifth factory/warehouse-type conversion we had the pleasure to work on. This particular live-work unit is located within an old yard building in Camberwell, South London. The 150sqm+ floor plate is surrounded by an unsightly post-modern apartment complex limiting its amount of external glazing to just two windows, a few old skylights and a glazed entrance which is overlooked by the communal courtyard. Whilst the existing building is full of beautiful features such as fair faced brickwork throughout and an exposed wood and steel roof structure, it consisted of just a small bathroom, a kitchen in a dark corner and a non-compliant sleeping deck. It was our task to provide three bedrooms, two bathrooms and simply a general nice envi... More

The place is a suburb of Sendai city in Tohoku Japan. It is a roadside location along a national road. Connecting information and people is thought to be important about the new business. That’s why most shared offices are located in well-accessed areas to create a business community, in Tokyo. As a different approach, we have designed a shared office that moves objects and people, taking advantage of the characteristics of the building and the location. We thought about connecting with the share office function, leaving the warehouse function and the delivery yard function that the building originally had. Users have shared offices that can do everything from business start-up, production, and delivery of goods. The operation of the shared... More

The existing AAU building was completed in 1975 by the architect group of Baurecht ‒ Esterl ‒ Hildebrand ‒ Kaplaner and is a rationalistic reinforced concrete skeleton construction with a precast reinforced concrete façade. After around 40 years of intensive use, some of the central building parts no longer meet today's technical and functional requirements for a university building and had to be reorganized, adapted and upgraded in terms of room qualities. ARGE balloon and Maurer won the competition for the broad renovation of the central and northern tracts in 2015. EXTRACT FROM THE JURY PROTOCOL:“This project impresses with the open design of the thoroughfare, most notably the foyer as well as its relation to the forecourt, the adja... More

Convert an Old Gas station to an Italia Food Court More

The roof of the three-storeyed residential building from the 19th century should be rebuilt and extended to an apartment. For geometric, static and building physical reasons the extension was not realizable with the existing roof construction. For that the roof timbering was removed completely and rebuilt in form of a pitched roof. To align the geometry of the roof space for residential use the ridge line was raised but subordinated to the neighbor building. Despite of this elevation the roof surface areas stay not visible from the street. Generous roof-top windows in direction to the street care for lighting and ventilation of the new living area. On the roof side to the courtyard a row of little roof-top windows was planned to light up th... More

Conversion, restoration and connection of two apartments in a semi-detached house in Berlin, Germany. More

Attic expansion of a multifamily house in Berlin. More

A large Berlin block of flats in Bötzow district, built in 1905, with a representative front building, side wing and rear wing was extensively refurbished in a partially inhabited state. The originally rich stucco facade of the front building had mostly dropped off and the remaining elements were irredeemably dilapidated. For the reconstruction of the facade a stucco version from the construction period could be moulded from the mirror-inverted neighbouring front building. All flats received bathrooms, the partly still existing pedestal toilets were removed. Several Berliner Zimmer were combined with the adjacent former kitchen and toilet chambers to form generous kitchen –living rooms. The side wing was completely gutted and small one... More

Amazing old school conversion to a beautiful light loft. In the Blankenstraat in Amsterdam the former public primary school transformed into loft appartments and offices. The large windows and high ceiling bring a feeling of space and light. For even more space the owners made the rooftop accessible and created a wonderful rooftop garden with nice views over Amsterdam. They used an enormous sleek, low-profile hinged opening skylight for easy access to the rooftop of this Amsterdam loft. Glazing Vision was commissioned to manufacture the rooflight for the project, a electrical hinged Skydoor offering not only roof top access, but also ventilation and light in the loft. In order to have enough room to walk the stairs comfortably, we made t... More

This historically significant 4-story project, built of masonry bearing walls and heavy timber construction, occupies a rectangular 1.5 acre site at 1614 Campbell Street in Oakland, CA. Originally used as an incandescent light factory by General Electric (GE) and designed by the Austin Company, the building construction was completed between 1912 and 1917. The site continued under GE ownership in 1962 when the division closed. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake resulted in the destruction of a north bay of the west wing, not to be rebuilt in the rehabilitation project. The structure is noted for being the first industrial building on the West Coast to employ women. In its modern context, Lampwork Lofts is situated in an up-and-coming post-... More

The existing building was a dilapidated hinge factory. The conversion to a graphic design studio sought to retain the industrial architecture of the elevations and the riveted steel trusses within. The apex of the long roof was glazed to admit a large amount of natural light to the main space. Open plan offices occupy the entire first floor, intentionally bounded by large glazed elements on either elevation. The ground floor spaces contain all of the organisation's other spaces including: meeting rooms, gallery, recording studio and audio-visual facilities. These spaces are more private and introverted. More

A refurbishment of an existing studio apartment within a double height space converted factory building in Chiswick, West London. This project sought to maximise space and privacy in order to create a home suitable for a young family. The new mezzanine structure hangs from the original beams and contains three bedrooms. Sliding screens provide openness and privacy between the bedrooms and living spaces. The central staircase is constructed from glass with solid oak treads. More