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WCMT Travel Fellowship: Switzerland

Switzerland

  1. Kunsthalle, Zurich Art museum

    Former brewery premises from the 19th Century turned into an art museum Gigon. Guyer Architects

Other buildings worth visiting:-

  • Chiesa Santa Maria Degli Angeli, Lugano. Mario Botta

WCMT Travel Fellowship: Spain

Spain

  1. Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid

    Extension and renovation of an existing museum of international renown, two temporary exhibition spaces, 500 seat auditorium, library, cafeteria, restaurant, administration offices Jean NouvelUnknown

  2. Atocha Station (Madrid Puerta de Atocha), Madrid

    A remodelling of the existing train station into shops / café / night club and the extension of the existing into a new terminal. Rafael Moneo

  3. ABC Museo, Madrid

    A former industrial factory into a museum in the city. The ABC Museo of Drawing and Illustration is a former brewery, it has been developed several times to integrate the museum into the city. Aranguren & Gallegos

  4. Caixa Forum Building, Madrid

    An abandoned electrical substation and industrial units creatively reused as a contemporary art museum in the centre of Madrid. Herzog & De Meuron

WCMT Travel Fellowship: Italy

Italy

  1. Parca Dora, Turin, Italy

    Transformation of former industrial land into a park landscape. Latz & Partner

  2. Auditorium Paganini, Eridania, Parma

    Transformation of a former sugar refinery and factory into a community auditorium. Using the old to influence the new. Renzo Piano

  3. Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy

    Transformation of a former armory into a museum / exhibition space of artifacts. World renowned building. Carlo Scarpa

WCMT Travel Fellowship: Netherlands

Holland / Netherlands

  1. Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanean, Maastricht, Holland

    A former Dominican church into a bookstore, adaptive reuse of a classical building into something new. Merkx & Girod

  2. Natural History Museum, Rotterdam

    Modern extension to an existing historic villa in which the museum now occupates. Erick Van Egeraat Architects

  3. A8erna, space under A8 highway, Koog, Amsterdam

    The underside of a raised highway repopulated and adapted to form a different kind of space. NL Architects

  4. Kranspoor Crane Runway NDSM Dock, Amsterdam

    Ms.Oslofjordweg, IJ Shore, Amsterdam North. Former crane runway turned into residences / offices by the building of a new building on this industrial spit of land. Trude Hooykaas

Other buildings worth visiting:

  • Sprijkenisse Book Mountain Library, Sprijkenisse, Rotterdam – MVRDV

WCMT Travel Fellowship: Germany

Germany

  1. Duisburg Nord – Landscahftspark

    A former industrial site turned into a public landscaped park. Latz & Partner

  2. Museum of Inland Shipping, Duisburg, Germany

    A former swimming baths turned into a museum with full size ships / boats. Architektur Fabrik Aachen

  3. Public Park on Harbour Island, Saarbrucken, Germany

    A former destroyed and spilled coal port is the centre of an ecological renewal programme. Latz & Partner

  4. Volklingen Iron Works, Saarbrucken, Germany

    Now a world heritage site and industrial complex of buildings, and chimneys; reinvented into a tourist attraction. Unknown

  5. Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany

    A former gasometer as an industrial monument into an exhibition hall and viewing platform. Unknown

  6. Zollverin World Heritage Site, Essen, Germany

    A former coal manufacturing industrial site into a series of visitors facilities and opened up to the public to maintain its history. OMA & others

  7. Tetrahedron, Bottrop-Batenbrock, Germany

    A 80m coal slag heap with a steel tetrahedron structure of 50m high to gain views across the landscapes and Ruhr industrial countryside. Professor Wolfgang Christ and Klaus Bollinger

  8. Ruhr Museum, Stuttgart, Germany

    A former coal washing plant into a museum as a part of the Ruhr Industrial area. H G Merz

  9. Dresden Museum of Military History, Dresden, Germany

    An extension to a historic building to form new exhibition spaces in an enigmatic manner. Daniel Libeskind

  10. Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruck, Germany & Extension to Felix Nussbaum Haus

    A museum dedicated to a jewish artist persecuted during WW2 extended in an enigmatic fashion. Daniel Libeskind

  11. Jewish Museum, Berlin & Glass Courtyard & Education centre, Berlin, Germany

    A reminder for the atrocities undertaken during WW2. Extended from a classical existing building in Berlin with 2 new additions. Daniel Libeskind

  12. Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany

    A former gothic parish church ruins formed into a new art museum in a sympathetic and sensitive design. Peter Zumthor

  13. Kuppersmulhe Museum Grothe Collection, Duisberg

    A former mill building converted into a museum. Herzog & De Meuron

  14. Wunderland, Kalkar

    An amusement park inhabiting a former nuclear power plant in Western region of Germany. Unknown

  15. Langan Foundation, Raketenstation 1, D-41472 Neuss & Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss

    A former missile station on Hombroich Island that has been changed into an art foundation. Tadao Ando & Alvaro Siza (Pavilion)

Other buildings to visit at cities above in Germany:

  • Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
  • New Stuttgart City Library, Stuttgart – Eun Young Yi
  • Neue Stattsgalerie, Stuttgart – James Stirling
  • Visitors centre & Park Kalkriese, Osnabruck – Gigon Guyer
  • Archaelogical museum & Park Kalkriese, Osnabruck – Gigon Guyer

WCMT Travel Fellowship: France

France

  1. Port Rambaud, Lyon, France

    A former loading and storage area at the southern edge of the new town quarter of this harbour site with its historic functions. Latz & Partner

  2. Palais De Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France

    An existing historic building transformed by an overcladding project that reflects the existing character. Jean Marc Ibos Myrto architects

  3. Louvre Museum, Paris, France

    A former palace into a world renowned museum with pyramid entrances. I M Pei – pyramids

Other buildings to visit in Paris:

  • Musee Du Quai Branly, Paris, France – Jean Nouvel
  • Pompidou centre, Paris, France – Renzo Piano / Richard Rogers / Gianfranco Franchini

WCMT Travel Fellowship: Denmark

Denmark

  1. A-House, Copenhagen Harbour, Copenhagen

    A former 1960s brutalist industrial building into units (residential). Holgaard Arkitekter

  2. Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen

    Former Royal Boat House into a jewish museum. A new insertion into a historic building. Daniel Libeskind

  3. Gemini Residences, Islands Brygge waterfront, Copenhagen

    Two existing silos adapted into residential units while retaining the former grain silos. MVRDV

  4. Kvarterhuset, Amager, Copenhagen

    A large neighbourhood and community centre set within a house and existing industrial mill extended with a modern glass cube. Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

  5. Jaegersborg Water Tower, Municipality of Gentofte & Domea, Denmark

    A former water tower – tank on 12 individual columns creatively reused as student housing and leisure facilities. Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

Other buildings to visit in Copenhagen / Denmark:

  • Concert House / DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen – Jean Nouvel.
  • 8 Tallet (residences and cafe), Copenhagen – Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).
  • Danish Centre of Architecture, Copenhagen

WCMT Travel Fellowship: Austria

Austria

  1. Loisium Visitors Centre & Hotel, Langenlois, Austria (outside Vienna)

    A new visitor’s centre on a 900 yr old winery, forming a visitors centre that links in with 900 yr tunnels and within the fabric of the vineyard. Steven Holl Architects

  2. Gasometers, Vienna

    Vienna gasometers were built between 1896 and 1899 at a time when societies were reluctant to exhibit freely their industrial infrastructures. Converted into shopping and housing but maintaining the external fabric. Jean Nouvel / Coop Himmelblau

  3. Spittelau Viaducts Housing Project, Vienna

    The revitalization of a disused waterway viaduct into a new residential project that weaves around the existing viaduct. Zaha Hadid

WCMT Travel Fellowship: Canada

Toronto

  1. Canadian Malting Silos, waterfront, Toronto

    Large industrial malting silos creatively reuse of these industrial spaces into creative innovative spaces. Unknown architect

  2. Sharp Centre for Design, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto

    A new building that hovers over the existing Victorian street scape and the existing studio space to form a table top extension. Alsop Architects

  3. Scrivener Square, Toronto

    A former train station adapted into a flagship liquor store and delicatessen. Unknown architect

  4. One King West, Toronto

    A former 1914 bank building retained and reused as a private dining and bar for a hotel. Unknown architect

  5. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

    A new extension to an existing historic building. Daniel Libeskind

  6. Royal Conservatory of Music, Koerner Hall, Toronto

    KPMB Architects

  7. Canadian National Ballet School, Toronto

    KPMB Architects

  8. Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building, University of Toronto, Toronto

    Foster & Partners

  9. Evergreen Park Brickworks, Toronto

    Industrial landscape reinvented into a series of galleries, offices, restaurants all within a former brick works. Du Toit Allsopp Hiller Architects, Diamond and Schmitt Architects, and several other prominent firms

  10. Gardiner Museum, Toronto

    Ceramic museum new against old. KPMB Architects

  11. Art Gallery of Ontario, Downtown Toronto

    A refurbished and altered building one of several renovations of the building completed with a new wrap around. Frank Ghery

  12. Meat market district

    Series of warehouses and industrial buildings into new restaurants, galleries, etc…

Other buildings to visit when in Toronto

  • Umbra Building, Toronto – Kohn Shnier Architects
  • CN Tower, Toronto
  • Terence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex, University of Toronto, Toronto – Kongats Architects, Toronto.

WCMT Travel Fellowship: America

New York

  1. David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Centre

    New atrium to an existing building to change the perception of the building, change the approach into and around the building and form a new impression. Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

  2. Higgins Hall, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

    New addition to an old building. A link between two existing 19th Century red brick buildings. An ingenious piece of urban infill. Steven Holl Architects

  3. Storefront for Art & Architecture, NY

    An insertion into an existing building that changed the streetscape and perception of the building. Steven Holl Architects

  4. High Line Park, Manhattan’s West Side, NY

    A former high line historic freight railway elevated above street level as a community garden. Diller Scofido & Renfro (Architect) & James Corner Field Operations (Landscape)

  5. The Julliard School, Educational Facility, NY

    An extension and refurbishment of a fine example of brutalist architecture in USA on a prominent NYC city block. Diller Scofido & Renfro

  6. PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY

    A former school then warehouse into a set of galleries and exhibition spaces as a part of MOMA. Frederick Fisher (Los Angeles)

  7. Gagosian Gallery

    Several gallery spaces occupying old industrial and commercial spaces dotted around NY. Chelsea Gallery, NYC: Former industrial trucking distribution facility into a exhibition space. Gluckman Mayner Architects

  8. Brewster Carriage House, Little Italy, NYC

    A former factory building has been adapted into residences and retail to the ground floor. Sympathetic approach to the existing architecture & retention of the existing character. Existing staircase is fantastic. Archi-Tectonics

  9. Schein Loft, SoHo, NYC / Greenwich Street Project, 497 Greenwich st / Spring st Soho

    A former six storey warehouse building is renovated, with a new 11 story ‘smart loft’ building wrapping up and over it. The introduction of modern architecture creates a nice contrast; its innovative folded glass curtain wall allows an amazing view over the Hudson River. Archi-Tectonics

  10. Ground zero memorial park & museum, NY

    The most awe-inspiring landscaped disaster zone of the 21st century, left as a reminder of where the twin towers once stood. Adapted from a graveyard for those killed into a memorial park standing in their memory, rather than rebuilding towers on the land. Park / memorial: Micheal Arad (Handel Architects) & Peter Walker & Partners (Landscape) – Museum: Davis Brody Bond LLP (Local architects) & Snohetta (Competition winning architect)

  11. Second stage theatre, Midtown, NYC

    A former historic bank building converted into a 296 seat theatre with lobby, etc.. Rem Koolhaas (OMA)

  12. New York Public Library South Court & Auditorium, New York Public Library, NY

    A new extension onto an historic building of extreme importance. Davis Brody Bond LLP

  13. Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, NY

    A new extension to a historic building with a large spherical space theatre. Polschek & Todd Schliemann

  14. Korean Presbyterian Church, Sunnyside, NY

    A former laundry factory converted into a church and community centre. Greg Lynn FORM & Garofalo Architects & Michael McInturf Architects

  15. The Brasserie, base of Seagram Building, NY – 100 East 53rd Street, NY 10022

    A new restaurant / brasserie set within the base of an iconic modernist building by Philip Johnson. A new insertion and refurbishment of the space to form a new destination. Diller & Scofido

  16. Tribeca Issy Miyake store, Tribeca, NY – 119 Hudson Street

    A new flagship store set within an industrial warehouse building with the charisma of the surroundings influencing the design & details. Frank Ghery

  17. Paramount Palace Theatre, Downtown Brooklyn, 1 University Place, Brooklyn

    Former picture house as a college basketball court and arena for Long Island University. Cornelius W. Rapp, George Leslie Rapp

  18. Wyckoff Exchange, Brooklyn, NY

    Former warehouse into a market and stores with new enigmatic façade. Andre Kikoski Architects

  19. Wythe Hotel, Williamsburg waterfront, Brooklyn, NY

    Former factory building adapted into 72 room hotel. Morris Adjmi Architects

  20. Office Building, NYC – 450 West 14 street, NY

    Existing art deco building to the base with hovering steel glass ‘green’ building above. Forms a part of the high line masterplanned area sitting over the high line parkland. Morris Adjmi Architects

Other notable buildings to visit:

  • Guggenheim Museum- MOMA
  • Parrish Art Museum, Long Island, NY – Herzog & De Meuron
  • Shake Shack, Cafe in Park – SITE Architects (NYC)
  • Austrian Cultural Forum, NY – Raimund Abraham (Austrian Architect)
  • Morgan Library & Museum, NYC – Renzo Piano
  • 40 Mercer, SoHo Residences, NYC – Jean Nouvel