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This issue is dedicated to working with old buildings. It is difficult to
find a single word that encopasses this topic, as there are so many
different terms: reconstruction, renewal, renovation, revitalisation,
regeneration… Usually they are used in conjunction with terms such as
expansion, extension, transformation, conversion, change of function or
re-adaptation.
It is for that very reason, that it was so difficult finding an appropriate
title for this issue. All the terms quoted here only describe what happens
to a functionally obsolete (and sometimes not particularly old) building,
when the choice between demolition and preservation is made in favour
of the latter. These are the operations which have to be carried out these
days for the building to be able to continue its existence and be used to
the full – so it can live again. Usually this opportunity presents itself to
buildings that have fallen into decline, that are still standing upright, but
life has ebbed away from them – one could probably describe them as
being in a state of «clinical death». Yet they can be saved and returned
to the living – they can be given a «new life». This is the reason why we
chose that very expression as the title of this issue. It was also chosen
because the other terms quoted above denote only ways and means,
by which this worthy goal can be achieved, many of which may be very
different.
Without pretending to be all-embracing (which in any case would be
impossible), we wished to show the multitude of these opportunities –
examples of the successful integration of old and new, demonstrating the
validity of these different approaches – and also the depth and intricacy
of the problems stemming from the very notion of a historic building and
the preservation of its architectural heritage alike, including industrial
structures, townscape and 20th century modernism.
Irina Chipova
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subject
Bernhard Schulz
New life
history
Vladimir Sedov
Architectural monuments in Russia:
unique features of national perception of
antiquity
pro & contra
Natalia Dushkina
object
Valeria Sheina
Fortress on the hill
Falk von Tettenborn. A water tower-turned hotel.
Hamburg
Kaori Tsuji, Anna Guseva
«798» – formula of cultural conversion
in China
Jean Michel Vilmotte / MADA s.p.a.m. Ullens Center
for contemporary art at the Factory 798. Bejing
Elena Petukhova
Pirogov-hospital: transformation of the
concept
Andrej Bokov. The Center of Chirurgy in Pirogovhospital.
Moscow
Irina Chipova
A school to grow into
Sarrah Wigglesworth. Siobhan Davis Dance studios.
London
Michael Zajonz
New source of light
Sergei Tchoban. Jewisch cultural center and
synagogue. Berlin
Vladimir Belogolovsky
Chandalier staircase in the Meatpacking
district
Amale Andraos & Dan Wood. Diane von Furstenberg's
studio. New-York
Elena Petukhova
Cultural strata
Buisness-Center «Stanislavsky Faktory». Moscow
Jan Skuratovsky
Taming the monster or the afterlife of the
Saint Nazaire bunker
Finn Geipel & Giulia Andi. Transformation of
a submarine base in Saint Nazaire. France
environment
Elena Nikulina
Moscow's industrial architecture.
Appreciation of value
Vladimir Frolov
St. Petersburg: between deconstruction
and reconstruction
expert
Anna Guseva
A matter of public affair.
Interview with Terunobu Fujimori and Sin Muramatsu
Irina Chipova
New live-style in old buildings in London
Interview with Harry Handelsman
portrait
Irina Chipova
Invisibility as a highest level of mastery.
Interview with Petra and Paul Kahlfeldt
gallery
Bernhard Schulz
Annals of the industrial epoch
«Typologies» by Bernd & Hilla Becher
reader
Text of the Venice Charter 1964
Introduction by Natalia Dushkina
Authors of this issue
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