Recent years have brought few doubts about the growing importance of heritage issues in architecture, though dealing with them tends to be an &lideological and aesthetic minefield,&r according to Luis Fernández-Galiano.
Even so, projects involving the metamorphosis of heritage buildings, from disused industrial sites to outdated public structures, garner a significant amount of attention. Most interesting are those with a less rigid approach, which consciously embrace the past by incorporating it into the contemporary project. Featuring OMA’s Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Dominique Perrault’s Pavilion Dufour, Herzog & de Meuron’s Park Avenue Armory, and more.
