Adaptive Reuse/Historic Renovation

Highlights

Close-up of former Domino Sugar plant in Brooklyn

Former Domino Sugar Industrial Plant Turns Mixed-Use Commercial Complex

In a Brooklyn-based adaptive reuse project, Bonetti Kozerski Architecture transforms The Refinery at Domino into a modern nesting-box of a commercial building.

HGA headquarters in Washington, D.C. with waiting area and reception desk

HGA Overhauls Former Department Store into New D.C. Headquarters

Lauren Brant

HGA breathes new life into Washington, D.C’.s historic Woodies Building, transforming a former department store into its new regional headquarters.

Hope Springs Eternal

Carrie Meadows

i+s Editor-in-chief Carrie Meadows has every reason to be optimistic about the prospects for the design community—and so should readers.

20 Brattle Street - The Abbott - by Dyer Brown

Dyer Brown Designs a Future-Forward Office in Tech-Driven Harvard Square

Dyer Brown & Associates

Modernization of 20 Brattle Street campus delivers an amenity-filled workspace that supports occupant well-being with biophilic, circadian, and hygienic design elements.

Celebrating Kansas City’s Theatrical History with Themed Office to Apartment Conversion

Barbara Horwitz-Bennett

Design team transforms historic office building adjacent to the Midland Theatre into worker-affordable micro units packed with amenities.

Recent

Perkins & Smith Halls Renovation and Expansion at Southern Methodist University

3D computer rendering of exterior of library building with trees and people at entrance.

DLR Group Unveils Top Design Trends Shaping the A&D Industry in 2025

Robert Nieminen

To achieve the immediate wow factor that Thielen & Green desired for guests walking into the new space, a reception lobby area and conference room were targeted to implement a lighting design that visually treats those spaces as one. PureEdge Lighting’s TruLine 1A lighting system delivered seamless recessed lines of light that intersect and create patterns.

Thielen & Green Architects Transforms Former Outpatient Clinic into Dynamic Workplace

Liz Wolf

Cooper Carry Completes Interior Fit-Out in Warehouse-to-Creative Office Conversion

Cooper Carry

Gensler's Office-to-Residential Conversion of NYC's Pearl House

Merriman Anderson Architects Reimagines a Hospitality Classic

Merriman Anderson Architects

Photo Essay: Kaminski + Pew's Silk Screen Studios

AnnMarie Martin

We got an update about this on the boards project of the Philadelphia firm transforming the old silk screen printing facility into a collective of maker spaces.

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The Art of Hand Sketching, Furniture Making and Adaptive Reuse with Architect Rachel Robinson

AnnMarie Martin

NYC-based architect Rachel Robinson sits down with Editor-in-Chief AnnMarie Martin to discuss her boutique firm's work.

An All-Star Team Reimagines the Historic Fulton Fish Market