Castillo de la Luz hosts a lecture by the firm Caruso St. John

On Thursday, November 12, we enjoyed a magnificent lecture by architect Peter St John, in which he presented his vision for adaptive reuse through some of his firm’s most iconic projects: the renovation of the monumental Philips industrial warehouse, Veemgebouw, in Eindhoven—transformed into a mixed-use urban building; the conversion of the Royale Belge complex in Brussels into a multifunctional space; the transformation of the former Düngerbau fertilizer factory in Switzerland—a timber structure repurposed into a community and residential space; the organ at Canterbury Cathedral in the United Kingdom—a wooden enclosure suspended on a lightweight steel structure within the 12th-century Gothic choir; and the master plan for the rehabilitation of the historic arts center, Hospitalfield Arts, in Scotland.