The challenging task here is to marry the eighty-four years of history by integrating a contemporary, open, and functional living space with a 1924 landmark that overlooks the Rideau Canal.
This riverside summer house in Tverskaya, Russia has a surface divided into rectangles and clad in an assortment of wooden slats painted in different colours.
It includes group study spaces, seminar rooms, and a state-of-the-art lab designed to integrate the role of scientists into the field of paper and manuscript conservation.