Redefining an industrial danish silo and turning it into an apartment building

Redefining an industrial danish silo and turning it into an apartment building

Jennifer Whelan reports for Archdaily: COBE’s Adaptive Reuse of Nordhavnen Silo Marks Beginning of Redevelopment. Danish firm COBE is transforming the largest industrial building in Nordhavnen – a silo – into an apartment building with both private and public functions. For COBE, who also created the urban development plans for Nordhavnen, this project marks the beginning of the post-industrial area’s future. Nordhavnen is a

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The Westminster Arcade is now filled with micro apartments

Known as Westminster Arcade when it opened in 1828, the building marked the debut of English indoor shopping concept in the United States. Designed by architects Russell Warren and James Bucklin, the Greek Revival stone structure more resembles a courthouse than a shopping mall, what with its stately Ionic columns and sunlight-filled atrium with its glass gable roof. Shoppers browsed three floors of shops—or at least

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Modernist House Brought Back to Life

Spencer Peterson reports for Curbed: This Modernist Cape Cod Cottage Was Saved Via Kickstarter.         The Kickstarter-funded restoration of Cape Cod’s Weidlinger House has successfully pulled the modernist gem back from the brink. Last pictured in a pretty sorry state, with all of its glass windows and doors missing, its interior weathered by the elements, and a large chunk of its southwest corner taken

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the interior of a large library filled with lots of books

Brooklyn Will Get Back Its “Wonder Theater”

Jen Carlson reports for Gothamist: Loew’s Kings Theatre In Brooklyn Will Reopen Next Year. Last year, it was announced that the Loew’s Kings Theatre in Flatbush, one of the five grand “Wonder Theatres” in New York and New Jersey, was going to be restored to its former circa-1929 glory.  A look inside at the time showed the current state of beautiful decay and abandonment,

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