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Cohabs main communal floor with the shared kitchen, sitting room, and dining area.
Domino Effect

Cohabs combines second-hand finds with existing architectural elements in its coliving venture in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

aerial view of the Flatiron Building and surrounding neighborhood
Word on the Street

More details emerge about plans to convert New York City’s Flatiron Building to residential use

Starling by GRT Architects added 4 stories to an existing brick warehouse building in Jersey City
66 Monitor Street

In Jersey City, GRT Architects converts brick warehouses into a mixed-use residential complex

illustration and spread from The Art of Architectural Grafting
Plant It Forward

AN in conversation with Jeanne Gang, author of The Art of Architectural Grafting

existing Milwaukee Public Museum building showcasing its limestone facade
The Current Digs

Milwaukee County seeks new uses for former Milwaukee Public Museum building

The Century and Consumer Buildings on State Street were built in 1913 and 1915, respectively, and have been saved from demolition.
State Street Structures

GSA opts to preserve Century & Consumer Buildings in Chicago, saving them from demolition

People walk beneath a cantilevered wooden roof at Monospace, a multi use food and music venue in Chattanooga, Tennessee and designed by Mattaforma.
Disco and Dining

Mattaforma helms design for Monospace, a new Tennessee music-and-food fusion

picture of Montreal Olympic Stadium
Big Ideas for the Big O

A design competition explores potential uses for reclaimed materials from the roof of Montreal’s Olympic Stadium

Jones Studio restored Monroe Street Abbey in Phoenix
Like a Phoenix

Jones Studio leads transformation of a burned church into a new event space in downtown Phoenix

black and white image of trusses and built works within Cafe Paddenbroek
A Semiotic Turn

Jo Taillieu, Jan De Vylder, and Inge Vinck deliver utopian architectural images via inventive adaptive reuse

El-space

Under the K Bridge Park pulls a major music venue out of thin air

Remove and Reuse

In Hong Kong, Beau Architects strips back a tenement house to unveil art gallery Kiang Malingue

exterior of The Act of Quad office
Waste Watch

The Act of Quad transforms an 80-year-old cattle shed in Mumbai into its office

Back in Business

Quinn Evans restores Detroit’s Michigan Central Station to its original glory

shingle gray building and brick factory building on Wesleyan University
Shingle Style

Bruner/Cott is transforming a vacant factory at Wesleyan University into an integrative arts lab

wood mock-ups and architecture inside old church
Readily At Hand

From a repurposed church in Buffalo, artist-architect-educator Dennis Maher leads the Society for the Advancement of Construction Related Arts

exterior view of Victory Wellness Center
Down in the Valley

PATTERNS’s medical campus in the San Fernando Valley disrupts the strip mall typology

Intuit Bayshore building
Across the Country

WRNS Studio makes space for both high-profile clients and sensitive civic work

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