CLUE: A LARGE AUTOMOTIVE PLANT WITH A CONCRETE-FRAME STRUCTURE PAVED THE WAY FOR A NUMBER OF SUCH FACTORIES DESIGNED BY ITS ARCHITECT. WHILE THIS COMPLEX HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR DECADES, A DEVELOPER NOW PLANS TO RENOVATE THE INDUSTRIAL RUIN FOR NEW USES.

The answer to the February issue’s Guess the Architect is GAE AULENTI. In 1986, her Milan-based firm, working with the French office of A.C.T. Architecture, transformed the palatial Quai d’Orsay train station in Paris, designed by by Victor Laloux in 1900, into the Musée d’Orsay, which exhibits art from 1848 to 1915.

working with the French office of A.C.T. Architecture, transformed the palatial Quai d’Orsay train station
in Paris, designed by Victor Laloux in 1900, into the Musée d’Orsay, which exhibits art from 1848 to 1915.
PERKINS, WHEELER & WILL (now Perkins + Will). The two offices teamed up to design the influential,
modernist Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1940–41.

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RAILWAY STATION TO A MUSEUM OF ART. THE BEAUX ARTS BUILDING HAD BEEN THREATENED WITH
DEMOLITION BUT WAS SAVED, THANKS TO THE GROWING ENTHUSIASM FOR ADAPTING HISTORISTRUCTURES TO NEW USES.