Adaptive reuse architecture

Adaptive reuse, or adaptive re-use in architecture, is the process of repurposing buildings that have outlived their original purposes for different reasons and adapting them to receive new different uses or functions while at the same time retaining and emphasizing their historic features.

A recent wave of large-scale projects is transforming five Dutch cities and encouraging creative reuse of derelict industrial sites around the world.

Monasteries, warehouses and factories given radical second lives this year

Illustration, Architecture

We asked an expert jury and our audience to choose the best projects of the year.

Image 1 of 10 from gallery of A Layered Architecture: Adaptive Reuse Projects That Reframe the Past Through Bold Material Contrasts. © Hong Seokgyu

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