Adaptive Reuse and Renovation

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A German church is resurrected to serve its congregation as well as a local choir.

An arts foundation reinvents an old rail yard in a historic town in France.

Restoration and reconstruction of one of the major landmarks of early modern architecture is now complete in Upstate New York.

The longtime home of the Swiss National Museum, or Landesmuseum, in Zurich, is a stolid 19th-century pile.

One of the first completed projects from Zaha Hadid’s office since her untimely death, at 65 in March this year, the new Port House on the sprawling docks of Antwerp, Belgium, is a bravura, if distinctly eccentric work.

A neglected 19th-century landmark reveals an astonishing space for a new hotel, thanks to Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel and Martin Brudnizki Design Studio.

Cigarettes built Winston-Salem, North Carolina, just as much as bricks and mortar.

The Singapore government funded the $370 million museum complex, which opened in November 2015 as a highlight of the island-nation’s 50th anniversary as an independent republic.

Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture and Roman and Williams convert an athletic club into a hotel, imaginatively combining modern and historic architectural flourishes for an updated approach to play and respite.

The Whitworth Gallery, in England’s booming second city, Manchester, is a cultural institution that took a walk in the park back in 1889—it was the first English art museum to adopt a parkland rather than urban setting.