How do you upcycle a government building into a hip theatre? Leave it as is

In what has become an exquisite miscegenation, designers aren’t just pairing the historical and the contemporary; they are grafting, splicing, meshing, mating and dovetailing them. In mastering the approach, Barcelona-based architects Ricardo Flor
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