Box-in-a-Box Architecture: Building New Workspaces Inside a Defunct Power Station

In the city of Wiesbaden in western Germany, a disused power station sits on the bank of the Rhine. It might make for great housing, or could even be transformed into a cultural site—London's Tate Modern was repurposed from a power station—but local zoning laws prohibit those applications for the industrial site. So site owner Wiesbadener Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft SEG GmbH commissioned German architecture firm 3deluxe to work up some design proposals to turn the building into office...