Author Archives: Marwa El Mubark

Focusing on careful renovation and adaptive reuse, this Danish practice breathes new life into existing buildings

This practice celebrates and elevates common materials and construction techniques to find the extraordinary in the ordinary

Through the ambitious renovation of historical buildings in São Paulo, this practice hopes to turn the tide on demolition in the Brazilian city

A 1970s shed conversion creates an architecture that allows for transformation in the everyday ritual of dwelling

AR New into Old awards 2021 shortlisted: a delicate interplay between new and old transforms an abandoned winery into Dexamenes Hotel

AR New into Old awards 2021 shortlisted: London-based DRDH Architects transform a 13th-century Gothic hall into a state-of-the-art concert hall

A numinous calm pervades the non-hierarchical spaces of a visitor centre for an NGO catering for the most marginalised in society

Settings in quiet verdant suburbs or exposed landscapes on the Irish coast allow this practice based in Dublin and Belfast to explore the resonances between inside and out

AR House awards 2019 shortlisted: Ambrosi Etchegaray’s fusion of Modernist restraint and the vernacular in this retreat in Oaxaca segregates eating, sleeping and living in a ritual of water, earth and air