No-Wall Apartment / RDTH architekti. Image © Filip Beránek Heritage , in interiors, is increasingly rarer to be only a matter of preservation alone. More often it arrives as friction : the encounter between what a building already is—its plan logic, its scars, its structural inconsistencies—and what contemporary life demands of it. Some of the most convincing projects today are not those that " restore " an interior back to a single moment, nor those that erase the past under a seamless new skin. They are the ones that stage a relationship between old and new—allowing contrast to do more than tell a story, and letting the clash become a pragmatic tool for construction, budget, and speed. + 28 The recurring pattern is not nostalgia but calibration . Older building stock—whether a 1970s apartment plan, a late-1930s corner unit, or an inherited commercial shell—becomes the substrate for contemporary insertions that remain legible as insertions.…