Sentence examples for an adaptive reuse from inspiring English sources

"It has been quite fascinating working on an adaptive reuse like this," Mr. Nicholson said.

We can make changes, even though it is a historic building, because it is an "adaptive reuse".

The changes amount to an "adaptive reuse" of an older building, taking advantage of its sturdy construction and its location, which is near many major fiber-optic cable lines.

Inexplicably absent is Annabelle Selldorf's meticulous conversion of a Beaux-Arts Fifth Avenue mansion into the gemlike Neue Galerie, which, although it is an adaptive reuse, certainly counts as first-rate contemporary architecture.

As such it was renamed Brassworks on Grove (the address is on Grove Street) and renovated with an adaptive reuse aesthetic, incorporating salvaged pieces of the old building as décor.

A previous partnership had planned to demolish the building to create new condos, but Mr. Finkelman, who took over the project two years ago, saw an opportunity to do an adaptive reuse project, especially as the building sits right outside Park Slope's historic district.

Now other postwar downtown office buildings are going residential, thanks to an adaptive-reuse ordinance passed in 1999.

(More recently, I wrote of a notable adaptive reuse of an older, formerly vacant retail building on Rutland, Vermont's Main Street).

Right now, the finishing touches are being installed on an $8.9 million adaptive reuse plan.

"The obsolete Worldport does not have landmark status or a viable adaptive reuse," states Baer bluntly.

But as a historic restoration and an attempt at adaptive reuse, the factory condominium conversion requires an approach unusual for the Island.