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NewLab Puts Down Roots in Detroit

Architecture firm Civilian helps transform Albert Kahn’s Detroit Book Depository into a sprawling incubator for innovations in mobility technology.

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Creative Reuse Slashes an Office Interior’s Carbon Footprint

LMN Architects achieves a carbon-friendly office renovation for a real estate client by striking a careful balance of reused and responsibly sourced materials.

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Pittsburgh’s Mill 19 Is a Postindustrial Innovation Hub

MSR Design transforms Pittsburgh’s last-operating steel mill into a world-class tech and manufacturing campus.

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L’Oréal’s West Coast Headquarters Puts Sustainability Front and Center 

Architecture firm Blitz employs a place- and nature-based design strategy for the cosmetics company's LEED- and WELL-certified workplace.

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This Oslo Workplace Is Made of 80 Percent Upcycled Building Materials

Local firm Mad Arkitekter refurbishes an office building using demolition waste, changing the conversation around material reuse.

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Transforming a Gas Station into a Community Asset

Mini Mart City Park in Seattle, Washington, transforms an icon of the fossil fuel age into a community center for a new, greener generation.

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Building Pittsburgh’s Med-tech Future on an Industrial Past

Designed by ZGF Architects around a century-old Ford plant, the Assembly is new medical research complex for the University of Pittsburgh.

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This Food Rescue Nonprofit’s HQ Offers Beauty During a Crisis

City Harvest's Cohen Community Food Rescue Center, designed by Ennead Architects and Rockwell Group, highlights themes of reuse, reclamation, and recycling.

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Are Residential Conversions the Future for Underused Office Towers?

As downtown workplaces struggle to compete with remote work, real estate developers across the country are converting office towers to residential ones.

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Architect Michael Hsu Fashions a Flexible Office out of an Austin Church

Product design consultancy argodesign sets up shop in a three-level workspace with a versatile layout and biophilic accents to boot.

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Tel Aviv’s Reuse Run Isn’t Just About Architecture

New projects at a range of scales and typologies reveal contestation around conservation and memory.

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BDG Redesigns a Detroit Power Plant for the World’s Largest Ad Agency

For a new headquarters in Motor City, WPP commissioned its subsidiary architecture firm to reimagine a downtown industrial building.

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In L.A., a Shopping Center Is Reborn as a Workplace

The May Company department store and Westside Pavilion have been transformed into the Westside’s newest workplace hub.

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Designs for Two Libraries Reimagine the Familiar Typology as a Community Hub

Projects by WORKac and Multistudio (formerly Gould Evans) transform humdrum buildings into places to learn, explore, and inspire.

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Central London’s Latest Office Block Redefines Adaptive Reuse

General Projects and Formafantasma transform a former gin distillery into a future-proof workplace championing a new form of sustainability and reuse.   

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A School From the 1860s Is Transformed into a Museum of Language

Beyer Blinder Belle reimagined the Franklin School in Washington, D.C., as Planet Word, the world’s first voice-activated museum of language.