Building reuse is a strategy for built heritage enhancement. The establishment of new activities in an existing building can have positive effects on the urban and territorial context and modify the dynamics of socioeconomic development. If the reuse is considered as a cultural development strategy and not limited to a single building but to both buildings and infrastructures, these effects ...
16 Fantastic Examples of Adaptive Reuse in Restaurant Design. New, 2 comments. By Amy ... converted military chapel to ecotourism cafés carved from grounded ships, there is no dearth of surprisingly gorgeous restaurant conversions. Have a look, below. · All ... Gorgeous renovation turns old steam factory into modern office space ...
The East Riverfront District will include new construction and adaptive reuse in a previously underutilized area of Delaware east of the Olentangy River. The project will help connect this nearly fouracre area to downtown Delaware and create new housing stock in one of the fastestgrowing counties in the country. ... Champion Mill ...
These MFE Award Winners for Adaptive Reuse show how buildings with a great history can be repurposed for living spaces. ... WinnDevelopment used state and federal historic tax credits to transform two historic mill buildings into mixedincome housing, 95 percent of which has been set aside for workforce housing. Today, the 1860sera buildings ...
Some of the first adaptive reuse projects occurred in the early 1990s—in many cases, spurred by the threat of demolition, with local groups coming together to save them from the wrecking ball. Some communities recruited developers to take on projects; others brought the public and private sectors together and took a communityinitiated ...
Adaptive reuse has been successfully applied on many types of facilities around the world. It is seen as being central to strong government policy and viable development. Although buildings have been reused throughout history, new architectural interventions are seen as a creative way to breathe new life into an historic region while recreating ...
From an urban perspective, adaptive reuse is a valuable strategy for revitalizing postindustrial cities, creating density and mitigating urban sprawl, or helping shrinking cities redefine their ...
The Museum of Modern Art highlights a new generation of Chinese architects with commitment to social and environmental sustainability. Eight projects are presented, ranging from the adaptive reuse of former industrial buildings, the recycling of building materials, and the reinterpretation of ancient construction techniques, to the economic rejuvenation of rural villages or entire regions ...
proposed to adapt and reuse them to house the reception area, restaurant, multipurpose hall, library, and other common amenities. A newly added, oblong, concrete volume nearby accommodates guest suites. Its pitched roof references that of the existing structures, while an intricate network of corridors, stairways, and semiopen spaces ...
The Blackhawk Generating Station was constructed between and consisted of an assemblage of buildings; Studio Gang spearheaded the adaptive reuse of the extant structures and a new field house addition. The project is unprecedented in America: it approaches the former coalfired power plant as a historical structure, integrating multiple modern programs while preserving its original ...
Good Bones: Successful Adaptive Reuse. Adaptive reuse projects breathe new life into old, vacant buildings — but they're not for the faint of heart. Brome Burgers Shakes was once a jewelry store. Photo by Oliver NasralahWhen signing on to develop Ophelia's, his newest operation on the fringe of downtown Denver, chef Justin Cucci didn ...
Photo: Scalo Solar Solutions. The roof of Mill 19 was outfitted with 4,968 silicon solar panels that powers the entire facility. The installation is largest single sloped solar array installation in the United States! Each panel weighs between 34lbs/sf and together will generate about Megawatts, which is enough to power 264 homes.
Coal was brought up to the top of the building on giant sloping conveyors for sorting in a bath of water. Dead rock was heavier than coal and would sink to the bottom while the coal would be ...
Over 40,000 square meters in size, this collection of 16 buildings will now help to transform a fossilfuel dependent community into a new thriving cultural hub. The coolest part will be the ...
Built in 1927, the steam plant once provided power, light and heat for the entire Pullman campus. It closed in 2003 when the Grimes Way Steam Plant became operational, ending the era of using coal to fire university boilers. The building still houses two functioning gasfired boilers and a small electrical substation on its ends.
Be that an 18thcentury townhouse or a mill in a farming community, each one is essential to maintaining architectural diversity and ensuring we don't forget about the past. ... This could be by converting an old mechanic shop or garage into flats or repurposing a bank into a restaurant. Image source: The Spaces. Commonly, adaptive reuse ...
Adaptive reuse preserves historic places and transforms vacant buildings into new homes, offices, and hotels while making financial and sustainable sense. ... the site was converted to an orchard in the 1800s and then served as an Eagle Flour mill from 1913 to 1947, at which point it became a cheeseprocessing factory for Kraft Foods until 2013
Beijingbased Vector Architects took on this ambitious adaptive reuse project, turning a 1960s sugar mill complex into new resort, Alila Yangshuo Hotel. They transformed the cluster of industrial buildings and old sugar cane truss using perforated concrete and latticed wood, creating a striking blend of old and new, all centred round a ...
In the healthcare industry, when patient volume outstrips capacity, the need for expansion initiatives carries significant costs. Adaptive reuse—the practice of identifying, acquiring, renovating, and placing back into service a building or similar structure for a purpose different than that for which it was originally designed—offers great potential for addressing the spatial expansion ...
Both projects are now widely accepted as a catalyst for modernday Durham, and for adaptive reuse projects in the area. In the last ten years, Belk has designed half a dozen charter schools in old factory buildings. And in Rocky Mount, he transformed the second oldest cotton mill in North Carolina into an 82acre modernday campus.
The 19acre site was a gasification plant that produced coal gas used for lighting, cooking, and refrigeration. The plant also manufactured tar, lampblack, charcoal briquets, sulfur and toluene. After the plant closed in 1956, it was acquired by the city and opened to the public as a park in 1975.
Completed in 2014 in Beograd, Serbia. Images by Tobias Hein. In the white city of Old Beograd, near the banks of the Sava River, GRAFT transformed the historic building of the "Old Mill" into ...
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