Adaptive Reuse and Renovation

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For February, we visit four buildings—a museum, school, hotel, and concert hall—that have each undergone a striking metamorphosis.

Architect Kulapat Yantrasast envisions Dib Bangkok, Thailand's first international contemporary art museum, as more of an events-hosting playground than a temple for viewing static art.

The design of the SAC Health Brier campus nods to the San Bernardino Valley's natural landmarks and healing traditions.

The market's undulant roof—the largest such structure in the southern hemisphere—was constructed using timber barged from Europe.

In its move to the Right Bank, the contemporary art museum has leased the basement and first two floors of a sprawling former hotel opposite the Louvre.

The update to Temple Emanu-El adds educational and congregational space while restoring several of the landmark's most distinctive architectural features.

An adaptive reuse project adds color and light for a new community center and preschool along a storied boulevard in the San Fernando Valley.

Studio Ma’s transformation of a mundane campus building champions transparency and collaboration.

Learn more about the awardee in the Adaptive Reuse & Renovation category by MVRDV.

The nearly two-century old building in the rapidly changing Gowanus neighborhood required myriad structural interventions and features a design that maximizes space.