Adaptive Reuse and Renovation

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The 44-key Municipal Grand Hotel retains traces of the landmarked 1961 structure's past lives.

In addition to sprawling stacked soundstages, the brawny studio complex in Astoria features a promenade along Luyster Creek.

In the Belgian city of Kortrijk, Groeninge Abbey's newest chapter is that of an art museum with revolving exhibitions.

An undulant screen of vertical fins greets visitors of the new Tselinny Center of Contem­porary Culture—the first private institution of its kind in Kazakhstan.

A versatile piazza anchored by a reconfigurable stage fuses together the ancient Roman civic space’s three halls.

The project, located in Quebec City’s leafy Montcalm neighborhood, stays true to Lapierre's ethos of celebrating the ordinary—with extraordinary results.

Seeking to avoid a gut renovation, the 2009 Design Vanguard preserves period touches while updating a stately 1892 structure under a breakneck timeframe.

Updating the limestone-clad 1905 structure required serious interventions, including inserting a sky-lit central staircase to directly connect the garden level with the rest of the house.

The Pioneer Square adaptive reuse project marks the local firm’s first major hospitality commission.

A dark and disregarded 1950s-era gym-turned-theater is transformed once again into Highland Hall, an inviting academic building populated by future architects.