Adaptive Reuse and Renovation

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Denver-based Swan Dive Design Studio led the transformation of a wholesale club into a food court and pickleball facility.

CAW Architects and Page & Turnbull led the two-year conversion of the ornate 1922 movie palace into a 21st-century performance space.

The British-Belgian partnership of David Kohn Architects and Bovenbouw Architectuur finds renewed value in old ruins and dilapidated houses.

Following a comprehensive restoration led by Rogers Krajnak Architects, the National Register of Historic Places–listed building reopened last fall as a visitors center.

The non-profit Miho Belmont International worked with a team that included Atelier Ryo and I-Kanda Architects to renovate and relocate a traditional timber 'minka' in the Boston suburbs.

Ben Loescher and Lucy Lloyd of Los Angeles–based architecture firm Terrain join DESIGN:ED to discuss their process of upcycling buildings and the studio's championing of adobe block construction through its advocacy and education offshoot, Adobeisnotsoftware.

Athletes and spectators will see little ground-up construction, but planners have carefully considered the afterlife of the Winter Games and its venues.

Careful not to detract from its character, the firm cleverly restores and enlarges a space-strapped junior high school built in the 1960s from prefabricated concrete.

BKSK Architects revive the historic facade of an 1891 Union Square building, now home to the New York outpost of London hotel and social club The Twenty Two.

The cramped but acoustically blessed Powell Hall, home to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, celebrates its centennial with a grand new lobby and back-of-house extension.