Adaptive Reuse and Renovation

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At an old distillery complex, Rem Koolhaas's Prada Foundation mixes one part creative preservation with one part bold new architecture.

An Italian sense of craft and detail is brought to New York City's major shopping street by David Chipperfield's design for Valentino.

A firm turns a 1960's church into a place of final repose and, once again, worship.

A makeover energizes a former swimming space while retaining traces of its watery past..

Once a Catholic school, a set of buildings from different decades of the 20th century has been transformed into a modern design hub. Change comes from within.

A design team digs down to artfully connect a historic museum to a building across the way. In the hands of Dutch architect Hans van Heeswijk, the Mauritshuis, a 17th-century mansion in The Hague that later became the Netherlands' first museum, has undergone an impressive expansion.

A Pritzker Prize winner turns back the clock, restoring one of his first works of architecture after it had fallen into disrepair.