Urban Retrofits

http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/22/7-examples-recycled-urban-architecture/

(((Via Makezine.)))

Link: 7 Superb Examples of Recycled Urban Architecture | WebUrbanist.

"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, make a statement, go bold and try something completely different. From airplanes, chapels and garages turned into houses to airplane hangers turned into tropical rain forest resorts, the possibilities are essentially endless."

(((Well, it's a tactic of necessity now because industrialism has collapsed and you're trying to stick something cultural or maybe residential in it. There are entire quarters of cities where this is tactic of necessity.)))

(((Some nice mutant weirdness here, though – like watching a strangler fig eat an old tree.)))