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World Architecture Festival is where the world's architecture community meets to learn, exchange and be inspired. Influential architects and commentators discuss the latest challenges and innovations.
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Thursday Oct 05, 2017
Thursday Oct 05, 2017
Adapting the existing
- How to turn a prison into a hotel and a ammunitions storage hall into a restaurant
- What are the main challenges when re-purposing a space and how can these be overcome?
- Is there anything the original designers could have done differently to aid the conversion if they had known the space would see a change of use
- What types of spaces are the most challenging in respect of flexibility and adaptability?
Joyce Wang, Principal, Wang
Almut Grüntuch-Ernst, Principal, Grüntuch-Ernst Architekten
Chair: Nigel Coates, Principal, Nigel Coates Studio
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