David Chipperfield Architects' new landmark for Zurich, the no-expense-spared expansion to the city's hallowed Kunsthaus, has perhaps eclipsed an equally impressive project of theirs – the refurbishment of one of Berlin's modernist icons, Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie.

In a recent interview with Architonic, the office discussed its painstaking approach to the undertaking, which, among other things, involved the careful disassembly of over 30,000 original internal fittings and their reinstallation. No small feat. But worth every penny in order to guarantee an authentic visitor experience. Read on for more on this and other, more overtly transformative and interventionist, cultural-venue renovations and reworkings.

Simon Keane-Cowell, Editor-in-Chief

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