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  • The contemporary gallery of Zhang Yan Cultural Museum by Shenzhen Horizontal Design

    Chinese ruins transformed into museum by Shenzhen Horizontal Design

    A white-concrete gallery that slots into the ruins of a brick house is among the three exhibition spaces that make up the Zhang Yan Cultural Museum in China. More

    Lizzie Crook | 6 November 2020 | Leave a comment
  • The Parchment Works by Will Gamble Architects

    The Parchment Works house extension built inside ruined stone walls

    The ruins of a 17th-century parchment factory and old cattle shed form part of a residential extension by Will Gamble Architects in Northamptonshire, UK. More

    Lizzie Crook | 31 March 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Kooroomba Chapel by Wilson Architects

    Wedding chapel by Wilson Architects will slowly become overgrown with vines

    Creeping plants will eventually overtake the hollow timber walls of this chapel by in Queensland by Wilson Architects, so it looks like a ruin amid a landscape of lavender fields. More

    Jon Astbury | 14 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Renovation of Saint Rocco's Church into a theatre by Luigi Valente and Mauro di Bona

    Stark monochromatic interior of Saint Rocco church brings stone ruins into focus

    Architects Luigi Valente and Mauro Di Bona have renovated the former church of Saint Rocco in southern Italy into a theatre with a black and white interior. More

    Semi Han | 1 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Single family house in Palau-Sator by Arquitectura-G

    Arquitectura-G builds modern house behind crumbling old stone walls

    Architecture office Arquitectura-G has slotted a new house within the aged stone walls of a ruin in the medieval village of Palau-Sator, Spain. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 10 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Casa Sperimentale photgraphed by Andy Tye of French + Tye

    Photos and scans reveal abandoned ruins of Casa Sperimentale

    The ruins of Casa Sperimentale, an experimental concrete treehouse built by Giuseppe Perugini and Uga de Plaisant, have been digitally recorded for a new exhibition. More

    India Block | 22 February 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Triangular timber roof shelters the ruins of Sweden's oldest church

    AIX Arkitekter has completed an exhibition hall and shelter, to protect the site of a ninth-century church in the village of Varnhem, southwest Sweden. More

    Alyn Griffiths | 29 January 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Kate Darby and David Connor preserve rotting structure in conversion of 18th-century cottage

    David Connor Design and Kate Darby Architects have transformed a tumbledown cottage in England's West Midlands into a home and studio, enveloping the ruined old structure in a shell of black corrugated metal. More

    Jessica Mairs | 13 October 2017 | 27 comments
  • Ixi'im Restaurant by Jorge Bolio Arquitectura

    Metal beams frame restaurant inserted inside old Mexican textile factory

    Building around a metal frame placed into ruins of a former engine room in the state of Yucatan, a team of Mexican architects have created a contemporary dining lounge. More

    John Trujillo | 7 April 2017 | 4 comments
  • Nelson Garrido showcases buildings left empty after financial crisis hit Portugal

    These images by Portuguese photographer Nelson Garrido reveal buildings left deserted in the aftermath of the last financial crisis. More

    Amy Frearson | 5 March 2017 | 9 comments
  • Deserted Japanese theme park photographed just before demolition

    The abandoned and overgrown landscape of Nara Dreamland, a theme park closed for over a decade, is revealed in this set of images by French photographer Romain Veillon. More

    Amy Frearson | 6 February 2017 | 6 comments
  • Modernist ruin in London canal provides a glimpse at an uncertain future

    British artist Alex Hartley has installed this crumbling modernist ruin in the gardens of London's Victoria Miro Gallery. More

    Emma Tucker | 3 December 2016 | 4 comments
  • Chedworth Roman Villa by Feilden Clegg Bradley

    Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designs larch-clad shelter for Roman ruins

    This shelter for the remains of a Roman villa in Gloucestershire, England, is wrapped in slats of untreated larch so that it will blend peacefully into the landscape over time (+ slideshow). More

    Luke Tebbutt | 30 July 2015 | 3 comments
  • Exploring Dead Buildings 2.0 by Didier Faustino

    Didier Faustino captures Cuba's ruined School of Ballet using cage-mounted device

    French artist Didier Faustino is staging a month-long performance around Havana's Modernist School of Ballet, strapping a camera rig to a local resident who is exploring the ruins during the city's art biennial (+ slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 15 June 2015 | 3 comments
  • British Pillboxes by Richard Brine

    Richard Brine photographs the concrete "pillboxes" left over from the war

    Photo essay: 70 years after the second world war ended, there are still over 6,000 defensive structures along Britain's coastline. Photographer Richard Brine has been documenting them (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 22 March 2015 | 2 comments
  • The Last Stand: Marc Wilson photographs remnants of war along Europe's coastlines

    Photo essay: British photographer Marc Wilson has spent four years documenting the physical traces of the second world war on the coastlines of the British Isles and northern Europe (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 30 January 2015 | 3 comments
  • E/C House by Sami

    Ageing stone walls frame concrete structure of E/C House by SAMI Arquitectos

    Portuguese studio SAMI Arquitectos has slotted a modern concrete house behind the crumbling stone walls of a ruined building, located on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. More

    Amy Frearson | 7 January 2015 | 6 comments
  • St Peter's Seminary in Cardross by Gillespie Kidd & Coia

    Brutalist seminary to be resurrected in 2015 after 25 years of neglect

    News: after a quarter of a century of decay, a full design team has been appointed to convert the Brutalist ruins of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, Scotland, into a major venue for art and culture. More

    Amy Frearson | 24 November 2014 | 3 comments
  • Soviet Ghosts by Rebecca Litchfield

    Abandoned Soviet architecture photographed by Rebecca Litchfield

    Photo essay: photographer Rebecca Litchfield has toured former Soviet countries to document the once-monumental structures around the Eastern Bloc that have fallen into decay. More

    Dan Howarth | 9 August 2014 | 11 comments
  • Levitate inserts oak walkway inside shell of ruined castle

    Oak walkway by Levitate inserted into ruined castle

    London studio Levitate have reinstated access to a sixteenth-century English castle by repairing stonework and slotting a continuous oak walkway into the ruined shell. More

    Olivia Mull | 4 March 2014 | 3 comments
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