Includes bibliographical references page 190).

This title features practical organization of example projects according to the renovation approach, provides architects with helpful information for design and planning, and addresses topics of current interest such as energy optimization in existing building stock.

In dialogue between epochs: introduction / Frank Peter Jäger -- "A gift from the past": interview / conversation with Peter and Christian Brückner, Claudia Meixner and Florian Schlüter -- Three examples from the work of RKW / Carsten Sauerbrei --- Refurbishing school and university buildings / Susanne Rexroth -- Renovating modern movement facades / Uta Pottgiesser, Julia Kirch -- Working on existing buildings: experience gained by a structural engineer / Rainer Hempel -- Three refurbishment stories from Baroque to Bauhaus / Winfried Brenne, Franz Jaschke -- Addition : Würzburg Cogeneration Plant / Brückner & Brückner Architekten ; Pier Arts Centre / Reiach and Hall Architects ; Cafeteria in the Zeughaus Ruin / Kassel Building Dept., Hans-Joachim Neukäter ; Museum Kunst der Westküste / Sunder-Plassmann Architekten ; Roof for the Kleiner Schlosshof / Peter Kulka Architektur ; Enschede Culture Cluster / SeARCH ; Neo Leo Vertical Living / Lüderwaldt Verhoff Architekten ; Rosa am Lend / Innocad Architekten ; Franz Mehring School / RKW Architektur + Städtebau ; Chesa Albertini / Hans-Jörg Ruch Architektur -- Transformation : Punta della Dogana / Tadao Ando Architect & Associates ; Rossio Railway Station ; Broadway Malyan ; Sparkasse Berchtesgadener Land / Bolwin Wulf Architekten ; Weinstadt Town Hall / COAST office architecture ; Heuried Residential Complex / Adrian Streich Architekten ; Lesezeichen Salbke / KARO* Architekten ; Bachmann Confiserie / HHF Architects ; School in Dagmersellen / Peter Affentranger Architekt ; Blumen Primary School & Bernhard Rose School / huber staudt architects bda ; University of Stuttgart's K II Building / Heinie, Wischer und Partner ; Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops / Numrich Albrecht Klumpp Architekten ; Siesmayerstrasse Office Building / schneider+schneider -- Conversion : Fahle Building / KOKO Architektid ; Andel's Hotel Lodz / OP Architekten ; Gymnasium in a hangar / Numrich Albrecht Klumpp Architekten ; Wildau Laboratory Building / Anderhalten Architekten ; Alvéole 14 Cultural Center / LIN Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi ; Zehdenick Brickworks Museum / Duncan McCauley ; Selexyz Dominicanen Bookstore / Merkx + Girod Architecten ; St. Joseph's House at Waldsassen Abbey / Brückner & Brückner Architekten ; Library in Ebracher Hof / Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architekten ; Terra Mineralia in Freudenstein Castle / AFF Architekten.