adaptive reuse
Coverage of adaptive reuse in the Nexus archive.
- Century-old Concord church transformed into attainable housing near emerging arts district
A century-old Baptist church in Concord's historic Logan community is being repurposed into 13 attainable housing units by nonprofit WeBuild Concord, positioned near an emerging arts district. The project, The Sanctuary Apartments, offers studio to three-bedroom units for local workers and families, emphasizing mixed-income affordability and adaptive reuse of historic buildings.
- New York construction scare highlights the challenges of converting offices into housing
A buckled support beam at a New York construction site halted work on a major office-to-housing conversion project, underscoring engineering challenges in adaptive reuse. The project aims to convert two midtown Manhattan office buildings, one built in 1909 and another in the 1960s, into 1,600 apartments by adding stories and redesigning structures.
- New York construction scare highlights the challenges of converting offices into housing
A construction scare at the former Pfizer headquarters in New York, where two steel columns buckled during an office-to-apartment conversion project, highlights engineering challenges in adaptive reuse. The project aims to convert two buildings into 1,600 apartments but faces complexities like ensuring older structures can support new loads and redesigning spaces for residential use.
- New York construction scare highlights the challenges of converting offices into housing
A construction scare at the former Pfizer headquarters in New York highlighted challenges in converting offices into housing. The incident involved buckled steel columns during a large-scale adaptive reuse project, with experts emphasizing the complexity of such conversions but affirming engineers' capability to address them.