01_Adaptive Reuse

Reviving old buildings with new uses is a mainstay of the preservation toolbox. But today's architects are tackling what you might call extreme adaptive reuse. Aaron Seward reports on four sites across the Americas -- a cotton barn, a grain elevator, a nurses' dormitory, and a power plant -- proving that even the most unwieldy building types can be reborn. 
 

the enclosure atop the new acropolis museum is aligned parallel to the parthenon. christian richters

02_New Acropolis Museum

When Bernard Tschumi's home for the Acropolis antiquities opens in June, it will mark an end to a convoluted saga involving political strife, archeological ruins, and the most influential building in western civilization. The architect talks to Julie V. Iovine about designing a contemporary building atop one of the world's most historically charged sites.

The renovation retains the museum's frayed historical layers.  christian richters

03_Neues Museum 

David Chipperfield's re-completion of a war-damaged Berlin museum melds past and present to create a moving testament to time's decay. Jeff Byles offers a capsule history of this powerful new project.

amid the moor grass: the high line's landscape mimics the look of overgrown terrain. adam friedberg

04_High Line

There is no real precedent for New York's newest urban promenade -- sculpted from the famed elevated railway -- and time will tell how much Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro's design lives up to our unfettered fantasies. Julie V. Iovine takes a first stroll.