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Taking Flight

BIG-designed museum opens at site of Denmark’s largest wartime refugee camp

exterior of a gold panel clad academic building
Concerted Climate Action

Op-ed: Architecture can’t wait for regulators to lead on sustainability

concrete building with retail shops on ground floor
Good Vibrations

Johnson Fain to convert former Sunkist headquarters into mixed-use development

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Shapes In Space

Through a series of inventive projects in Buffalo, Davidson Rafailidis explores its own distinctive take on adaptive reuse

rendering of an elevated walking path in a zoo
On The Right Track

The Minnesota Zoo kicks off transformation of defunct monorail track into elevated pedestrian loop

Freshly Baked Plans

OMA and Library Street Collective reveal plans for sprawling art space at erstwhile commercial bakery in Detroit

From Hate to Healing

Reparative justice and adaptive reuse align in planned transformation of old Fort Worth KKK hall into community arts hub

historic facade of a 100-plus-year steam power plant
Riverfront Recharge

Dreyfuss + Blackford’s reimagining of a decrepit power station breathes new life into the Sacramento riverfront

a terra-cotta building joining a glass one with aronson building sign
Stone For All Seasons

In San Francisco, the historic Aronson Building gets a second life as a neighborhood anchor

the ion, a new mall integrated into a historic sears
Plus And Minus

The Ion in Houston upgrades an art deco Sears into a tech-incubating cyborg

exterior rendering of a healthcare building at twilight that used to be the marketplace mall
Anchors Away

A mall-anchoring Sears in Western New York begins a second act as a regional orthopedic care hub

view of the Santo Stefano prison's ruins, everything is worn-down with the watch tower in the middle of the prison's courtyard.
Curating The Panopticon

Italy’s latest adaptive reuse project will transform a ruined island prison into a tourist destination

rendering of a semi-enclosed arts space
Digging In

Olson Kundig shares first visuals of a reimagined Telluride Arts Transfer Warehouse

picture of a pedestrian bridge in the florida keys
Old and Improved

The Florida Keys’ historic Seven Mile Bridge reopens as a ‘southern High Line’ after $44 million renovation

inside offset house, with white scalloped ceiling and skylights
Scalloped Synergy

Overlay Office transforms a 19th-century Brooklyn rowhouse into the quirky Offset House

aerial view of an old military air field with hangars at what will become the Cultural Terrace
Nearing Take-Off

California’s old Marine Corps Air Station El Toro will get a second chance at life as a Cultural Terrace

Fired Up

In Bratislava, a heating plant finds new life as a co-working space

the new Irish arts center with a 4 story brick building
Brick on Brick

The Irish Arts Center builds on history after decades of planning

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