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Urban Reuse Goes Underground: Subterranean Community Park

With the recent expansion of the High Line Park and the growing popularity of urban reuse projects, city dwellers have come to appreciate the potential in unused spaces. One of New York City's ...

High Hopes Turn Man-Made Structure into Green City Retreat

A project that has been over 12 years in the making added an impressive accomplishment to its history on June 8th, 2011. The High Line, a New York City public park that was built on the remains ...

Germany’s Coolest Hotels, From Kitschy to Ultramodern

Traveling to Germany soon on business or vacation – or just want to engage in a little virtual tourism on your lunch break? These 13 awesome hotels and hostels represent the incredibly fun, ...

Hunker in the Bunker: 15 Cool Converted Concrete Shelters

Once, they were bomb shelters, fortified underground structures that housed military operations or nuclear warheads. Today, they're apartment buildings, tea houses, hotels and art galleries. ...

Adaptive Reuse: 15 Creative House & Home Conversions

When old billboards, fire towers and grain silos outlive their old purposes, there’s no need to tear them down – especially since they can be transformed into surprisingly modern, livable ...

Recycle Your Dumpster: Urban Art via Adaptive Reuse

How many different ways can you upcycle a dumpster? In a project called ‘Skip Conversions’, eco-conscious artist Oliver Bishop Young proved that what used to be grimy, unsanitary trash ...

Adaptive Reuse: 7 Brilliant Building Conversion Projects

Adaptive reuse used to be a tactic of necessity - people didn't have the time, energy or money to build something new so they made the best with what they had. Today it is a way to stand out, ...

Creatively Converted Army & Navy Sea Forts of Great Britain

Ocean and sea forts are few and far between and with good reason: only in fairly extreme circumstances is their expense deemed justifiable. Since being decommissioned, many of these have gained ...

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