The Red Barn Co. and the city of Hercules, Calif., installs “moveable” food, retail and entertainment area.
Builders and architects turn to reclaimed materials and historic elements to build tradition into high-performance new homes and remodels.
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Vertical construction for the first phase should begin in the spring, and the builder has completed its environmental impact survey for phase two.
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Senior housing
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Live/Work project
2009 Builder's Choice, Merit Award, Adaptive re-use project
2009 Builder's Choice, Grand Award, Adaptive re-use project
Rehabs, retrofits, and re-dos may offer a lifeline to builders in tough times.
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Hillwood Development and Scala Real Estate Partners will help finance the $2 billion redevelopment of 770 acres on Hunters Point and Candlestick Point.
2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
2008 Builder's Choice Grand Award Winner
Old buildings are reincarnated as hot properties through adaptive reuse.
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Agoos/Lovera Architects was challenged with converting an early–20th-century Connecticut horse barn into a recreation facility and guesthouse for family gatherings. Although most of the changes were internal, the team carefully considered the barn's history and architectural details when choosing...
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When it comes to the adaptive reuse of churches, especially those with historic easements, one thing really matters: windows. Just ask architect Jai Singh Khalsa, whose firm has been repurposing churches and other institutional buildings since 1980. “We're currently doing a number of buildings that...
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These six heavy concrete buildings were operating, albeit inefficiently, as cold storage for a wholesale fruit and vegetable market when architect Pappageorge/Haymes purchased them for condo loft conversions. Located in the South Water Market historic district, the 926 units are within financial...
In The Gulch, Nashville's newest redevelopment area, a nifty loft project rises up through an old warehouse.
IT'S EASY TO COME UP WITH A LIKELY story behind this stately home in Richmond Hill, Ga. The mature oaks, aged brick, graceful white columns, and plantation location bring to mind images straight out of Gone With the Wind. Surely, this must be some antebellum mansion that's been passed down from one...
FOR YEARS, NOBODY PAID MUCH attention to the aging Sears store that anchored a hill in Tenleytown, a Northwest Washington neighborhood just south of the Maryland-District line. When the concrete, curvilinear, Deco-inspired store opened in 1941 it made quite a splash, especially the two ramps that...
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ADAPTIVE REUSE PROJECTS OFTEN bring with them a fair amount of headaches. Historic designations, layers of municipal approvals, and constrained construction sites are just a few of the concerns that builders and developers often have to juggle with these kinds of endeavors. But adapting a building...
THE THREE-STORY COLONIAL building (circa 1895) that sparked this adaptive reuse project occupied less than a third of a long, skinny lot. But space is at a premium in Georgetown, and architect Stephen Vanze made the most of it. Leaving the original historic structure (in the photo, the second...