Concepts

Adaptive Reuse

Also Known As Building Reuse

Contemporary Practice

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Architecture and Design Atlas. "Adaptive Reuse." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-architecture.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/adaptive-reuse.

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Architecture and Design Atlas. (n.d.). Adaptive Reuse. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-architecture.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/adaptive-reuse

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@misc{architectureanddesignatlas-adaptive-reuse,
  author = {Architecture and Design Atlas},
  title = {Adaptive Reuse},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-architecture.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/adaptive-reuse},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Giving an existing building a new life instead of demolishing it: power stations into museums, warehouses into housing, churches into libraries. It conserves embodied energy and urban memory at once, and projects like the Tate Modern in London's Bankside power station made it one of the defining architectural practices of the present.

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1. Encyclopedia Britannica

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