Adaptive reuse
Workstead turns historic Upstate New York house into showroom
Los Angeles firehouse becomes boutique hotel fronted by red garage doors
Gabriele Salini transforms historic palazzo into G-Rough hotel in Rome
Adam Wright-Smith designs Melbourne restaurant around “sense of adventure”
Carpenter + Mason fuses Japanese and industrial elements for Brooklyn Kura sake bar
Moying Huang conceives eco-crematorium within disused London power station
Anders Ruhwald converts abandoned Detroit building into all-black installation
OMA to transform Houston post office into entertainment complex
Odami celebrates “earthly minimalism” at Sara restaurant in Toronto
Mason Studio designs Kimpton Saint George hotel as “homage to Toronto”
Eklund Terbeek creates loft-style apartment within a former school gymnasium
Mutuus Studio converts industrial artefact into Acid Ball installation in Washington park
Rhea Adaimi proposes Carbon Capture Facility to alleviate London air pollution
SERA expands Portland Playhouse with building wrapped in glass and charred wood
Witherford Watson Mann builds “unorthodox” opera theatre within old stable block
Villeroy & Boch’s Factory N 09 office occupies an old warehouse
19th-century schoolhouse, convent and church become Hotel Peter and Paul in New Orleans
Grimshaw transforming Herman Miller Factory into campus for Bath Spa University
Wenink Holtkamp Architecten turns De Lakfabriek tannery into apartments
ODA turns former sugary refinery into “crown jewel of Dumbo”
Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter creates Lyceum apartments within former university labs
Perkins+Will creates “Instagram-ready” spaces in Unilever’s New Jersey campus
Paustian transforms 19th-century bank into Copenhagen showroom