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This came out incredible. Reusing and adapting old buildings for new uses is more sustainable and keeps the old fabric of the city intact, developers should really be doing this at every chance they get. Plus the structures you get from adaptive reuses are just more interesting, you end up with cool mash ups of old and new styles and materials that you otherwise would not have seen had it been built from scratch.

Tastefully done adaptively reused structures are so in demand these days that The Quinn in the south end was even designed from scratch to look like an old brick warehouse that had a glass addition added on top like the converse building. If developers are even designing this style into brand new buildings now that definitely shows that its been a huge success so far.
 
stick n move said:
This came out incredible. Reusing and adapting old buildings for new uses is more sustainable and keeps the old fabric of the city intact, developers should really be doing this at every chance they get. Plus the structures you get from adaptive reuses are just more interesting, you end up with cool mash ups of old and new styles and materials that you otherwise would not have seen had it been built from scratch.

Tastefully done adaptively reused structures are so in demand these days that The Quinn in the south end was even designed from scratch to look like an old brick warehouse that had a glass addition added on top like the converse building. If developers are even designing this style into brand new buildings now that definitely shows that its been a huge success so far.
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I completely agree with the sentiment. It did really help in this case that the old buildings are the right kind of construction to adapt for the new purpose. Heavy floor loading factory construction is perfect for the kind of equipment intensive R&D The Engine companies engage in.
 
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