When built right, buildings can last for hundreds or even thousands of years. But a building constructed 400 years ago isn’t always going to match the needs of a resident or business of today. So what happens next?
Increasingly, architects and designers are updating and upgrading old buildings for new purposes, a practice called adaptive reuse. A new book, Building for Change: the Architecture of Creative Reuse by Ruth Lang (edited and published by Gestalten), explores how purpose-built buildings are taking new forms and living longer lives.
The book profiles dozens of projects, including the conversion of the former TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York into the mid-century modern-themed TWA Hotel, and a former church rectory that’s been turned into a colorful elementary school in the Czech Republic. In the article below, Lang explains the climate imperative and creative opportunity of adaptive reuse.
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