So I keep wondering whether the interesting architectural move is neither preservation nor tabula rasa, but something closer to urban surgery: keep what works, repair what can work, replace what genuinely can’t, and add what the place is missing.

So I keep wondering whether the interesting architectural move is neither preservation nor tabula rasa, but something closer to urban surgery: keep what works, repair what can work, replace what genuinely can’t, and add what the place is missing.