#adaptive reuse

[deadmotelsusa]

Bennett's Motel no longer operates as a motel and has been turned into an office building. There is now a tattoo shop, chiropractor and accountant all at this address. Located in Asheville, North Carolina.

[arc-hus]

Ziinlife Store, Beijing - Atelier TAO+C

[artdecodude]

AB Hirschfeld Building (1949) so that makes it LAAAATE #ArtDeco. On the corner of Acoma & Speer in #Denver #Colorado. Nice to see some orange stonework. This building hasn't been a printing press building for decades now. Adapted to now be a a Townplace Suites by Marriott. 📸:me/10/2025

[atlantathecity]

I love the beautiful Art Deco facade of this building at 75 John Wesley Dobbs Ave in Downtown Atlanta!

According to Easements Atlanta (the non-profit that preserves the facade), it was built in 1930 by architect G. Lloyd Preacher for the Freeman Ford car dealership, and got converted to residential apartments with ground level retail in 1996. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

A car dealership was converted to homes! Very cool.

[germanpostwarmodern]

Between 2021 and 2023 Zurich architects Maik Ilmer and Felix Thies of Ilmer Thies Architects realized an exemplary project of circular building: with great care and sensibility they transformed and improved an office building from 1980 located at Müllerstrasse in Zurich. In view of the quality of the result and the thought they put into it, it isn’t surprising that they were awarded the Swiss „Betonpreis“ 2025 in the category building construction.

In his latest book „Totalsanierung Müllerstrasse“, published by Drittel Books, Andreas Gehrke together with the architects celebrates the Müllerstrasse project: in 55 photographs Gehrke dives into the details of the building that in combination with the brief text provided by the architects offer wonderful insights into the latter’s interventions. Ilmer Thies Architects carefully preserved the identity of the building, maintained its material properties but also reused parts in new contexts, e.g. sections of the old cast aluminum facade which now clad the walls and ceilings of the entrance lobbies. On the facade the architects in turn corrected past deficiencies, i.e. the slab edges and columns previously connected by solid spandrel walls which were removed completely and replaced by a load-bearing system of fine steel tension members that now stabilize the slab edges. In so-doing they clarified the structural grid of the building and introduced a more measured grid to it.

These alterations, carefully carried out and aligned with the character of the building, are documented in Andreas Gehrke’s precise photographs and showcase the architects’ extraordinarily smart adaptive reuse of a 1980s building that really deserved a publication like the present one. Accordingly, both building and book are obviously works of art passion and art that are truly worth visiting and reading.

[zedanet]

Leecycling! Diy custom printed EASY fabric patches

[bevanne46]

When flour bags became dresses…In the 1930s, during the harsh years of the Great Depression, survival required creativity — and kindness came in unexpected forms.

In the United States, flour and grain were shipped in cotton sacks. For struggling families, nothing went to waste — not even the packaging. Mothers began to turn those sacks into dresses for their daughters. But the plain fabric? It wasn’t much to look at.

Then something beautiful happened.

The Kansas Wheat Company saw what was going on… and they decided to help.

They began printing their sacks with floral patterns and bright colors — not just to ship wheat, but to offer dignity and beauty to those in need. Some even had sewing patterns printed directly on the fabric, ready to be cut and stitched.

And the ink? Designed to fade after one wash. Just like that, a flour sack became a summer dress, a Sunday outfit, a symbol of resilience.

Women didn't just sew for their children — some sold their handmade pieces to earn extra income, passing strength from one home to another.

This wasn’t just marketing.

It was compassion stitched into cotton. A silent gesture that said: We see you. You matter. You're not alone.

[wouldwind]

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