Call for Nominations: Category 9: 2013 Best Adaptive Reuse of a Building or Infrastructure

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.

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We mourn for the architecture that was not saved,

for which no one had  creativity,

and instead was made into parking and repaved.

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with the occasional periodic festivity.

 

 

But we are getting smarter

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(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.

David Levinson

About David Levinson

<a href="https://transportist.org/david-levinson/">David Levinson</a> also blogs at <a href="https://transportist.org">The Transportist</a> and can be found [<a href="https://twitter.com/trnsprtst">@trnsprtst</a>]. Levinson has authored or edited several books, including <a href="https://transportist.org/books/the-end-of-traffic-and-the-future-of-transport/">The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport</a> and <a href="https://transportist.org/books/planning-for-place-and-plexus-metropolitan-land-use-and-transport/">Planning for Place and Plexus: Metropolitan Land Use and Transport</a> as well as numerous peer reviewed articles. He is the editor of the <a href="https://www.jtlu.org">Journal of Transport and Land Use</a>.