Category 9: Best adaptive reuse of a building or infrastructure.
Once Bandana Square was a rail shops. Now it has a Model Train Museum.
Adapting the building and reusing, though not quite an atheneum.
We mourn for the architecture that was not saved,
for which no one had creativity,
and instead was made into parking and repaved.
with the occasional periodic festivity.
But we are getting smarter
(perhaps because of less lead in the petroleum),
and now keeping a larger share of structures
which are functionally obsolete but not physical pandemonium,
Use the comments to argue in favor of a nominee for Best adaptive reuse of a building or infrastructure.
The conversion of the UAW union hall into a bike shop. They found the original blueprints in the basement and have them framed in the entry. And because… Bikes
Town Hall Lanes.
TBD Schmidt artists lofts
The Broadway. 945 Broadway St NE Minneapolis. Where 612 Brewery and a new Spyhouse Coffee is located.
Mill City Museum.