When working on projects involving the revitalization of old architecture, preserving and restoring its structure for the use of future generations, we must carefully sense the history and memory of the building and generate a new energy that links the future with the past. To maximize the existing quality of the building, while generating new values and lively spaces for the site in restoration and preservation’s projects of old buildings is perhaps the most creative work possible in today’s world, where a game of superficial forms and shapes dominates the contemporary architecture circle.

Tadao Ando