Take Two: 7 Adaptive Reuse Projects We Love
As the way in which people use cities morphs form generation to generation, we're left with dormant buildings—those that have outlived their original purpose, but are rife for enterprising architects and designers to give them a second wind. This latent stock might include industrial remnants, former school houses, barns, and even convenience stores. In the following slideshow we examine seven such projects from Portland to Boston to Hamburg that demonstrate reusing and recycling go far when it comes to architecture.
Originally erected in 1907, the building in Portland, Oregon's West End that's now home to architect Jeff Kovel and his family was once a messenger service, a boardinghouse, a storage space, a gay bathhouse, and more recently, a store selling fine, handmade men’s lingerie.
“We intended to stay for a year and then sell it and get out,” Kovel says. “But obviously we’re still here.”
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