Toronto’s Distillery District Mixes Victorian Architecture with Modern Design
In Toronto’s Distillery District is the continent’s best-preserved collection of Victorian industrial architecture, offering visitors a glimpse into the 19th century.
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5 Repurposed NYC Former Synagogues
Many of NYC’s synagogues have been repurposed into condos, churches, community centers and nightclubs: Angel Orensantz, Meseritz Shul, Deity, Mount Olivet.
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Ten Proposals for Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Empire Stores, 7 Historic Waterfront Warehouses
Team 8’s proposal for the Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Empire Stores Warehouses
The plans for Brooklyn today leave no space undeveloped. Luckily, the borough often does redevelopment correctly – with proper homage to the history of the place where the redevelopment occurs.
For years, the seven Empire Stores coffee warehouses, dating back to 1869, have been falling into …
MoreThe Dunbar Hotel, A Legendary Jazz Spot in LA is Transformed into a Senior Citizens’ Center
A 1938 postcard from the Dunbar Hotel. Source: Hidden Los Angeles.
An unlikely group – Los Angeles’ senior citizens – are indirectly saving a building that was once the heart of the black community and jazz scene in South Central Los Angeles. Our friends at phenomenal architecture and real estate blog Curbed alerted us …
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Rome’s Centrale Montemartini Museum – Gods among the Machines
The idea of re-purposing outmoded structures for cultural purposes is not a new one, but the marriage of industrial architecture and classical archaeology of the Centrale Montemartini Museum in Rome achieves a particular alchemy that is worth seeking out. Visiting the museum provides, as the curators so eloquently put it, an “Olympian calm,” a state …
MoreBerlin’s Stattbad: A Former Pool Repurposed as Cultural Center
Stattbad (formerly Sadtbad Wedding) is a former pool that now hosts cultural events like DJ sets, ephemeral abstract art and street art installations.
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