Cities evolve, and are composed of layers, rather than erasing history, we look for ways to extend it. Whether restoring a cultural landmark or transforming an industrial site, our approach to adaptive reuse is driven by precision, sustainability, and respect for context.
One of our earliest and most ambitious projects was the transformation of the Lingotto Factory in Turin. Once Europe’s most advanced car plant, the vast structure was reimagined into a dynamic public space, integrating a university, offices, a concert hall, and even Fiat’s headquarters. Instead of wiping the slate clean, we gave it a second life.
In the U.S., we’ve engaged existing structures in unique ways on projects such as the Morgan Library in New York, the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Each involved careful negotiations between preservation and modern needs—carefully adapting existing structures with technical and environmental improvements.
Most recently, in Paris, we completed the transformation of the historic 1929 Paramount building into the new Pathé headquarters. More than a renovation, the project redefined the space, merging high-performance offices with a state-of-the-art cinema while significantly reducing carbon impact by conserving substantial amounts of the existing structure through innovative engineering.
In many cases the essence of a project is already there, an imaginative reuse of an existing structure is a starting point to consider the genius of a place.
