Canopy House

The Grand Parilly district located in Vénissieux is an urban project in the Lyon metropolitan area designed to bring everyone living there together. The project's aim is to create a vibrant new district created by successfully interweaving shops, workplaces and leisure activities.

In the recent years, adaptive reuse has become one of the most effective approaches in keeping unoccupied buildings with historic values from being demolished. By bringing new functions and purposes, aged buildings can gain new lives and at the same time offer shared memories and perspectives to the community. Generally, adaptive reuse principle is to leave a substantial portion of the historical significance intact while adding new elements to accommodate new purposes.

Set among a sextet of mass-produced houses in the rapidly growing Wairarapa town of Martinborough is a distinctive new home designed by an emerging Wellington architecture practice, First Light Studio.