Time to Make a Change: When Adaptive Reuse Begets Positive Transformation

Pavilion Brekstad / ASAS arkitektur. Image © Kristoffer WittrupWhen you’ve made a mess, it’s often easier to hold up your hands and start again from scratch. But while it might be a harder way to do it, adaptive reuse – when architecture takes something old and broken and brings it back to life – can have benefits all around.When planning much-needed social and cultural buildings for public use, instead of using new, virgin materials (or even recycled materials that