Dec, 2022
A 500-Unit Conversion Planned For Universal Buildings on Connecticut Avenue
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Adaptive Reuse and Renovation
The adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of well-designed, well-built structures can offer significant sustainability and financial benefits. This work also allows us to show respect for the continuity of history in the environments in which we work, as well as for those that shaped those environments.
These projects, whether they are conversions of historic city infrastructure, or breathing new life into outdated multifamily buildings, pose unique design challenges - and present unique design solutions - that we embrace as a test to our skill and craftsmanship.
Services We Offer:
- Strategic planning
- Assessment of buildings of historic significance
- Reprogramming of existing infrastructure
- Adaptive reuse of existing infrastructure
- Renovation of both occupied and unoccupied buildings
Adaptive reuse is in our blood.
One of Handel Architects' first projects was the adaptive reuse of a four-story office building in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City into a mixed-use residential/hotel tower, now called Grand Millennium. Since then, the firm has become a world leader in this project type.
Our experience includes the conversion of the Filene’s Department Store in Boston into a new office and retail building, as well as converting Pier 57 in New York City into office space for Google. We converted a landmarked incinerator into the Ritz-Carlton Georgetown in Washington, DC, and we transformed a former dental teaching building in San Francisco into The Pacific Residences.
We understand the benefits - and pitfalls - of working with historic infrastructure.
We appreciate the opportunity to solve the complex planning issues involved with restoring historic work, and our team understands how to bring character to spaces through a combining of old and new.
In addition to working with landmarks on the National Register, our work also includes buildings within the texture of historic districts; we gave new life to several 1920’s Felix Candela-designed apartment buildings in New York City's Historic Upper East Side District; in San Francisco, we are currently renovating the historic 1906 Aronson Building on Mission Street.
Press
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Sep, 2022
Pier 57: West Side Story
US Glass Magazine
Sep, 2020
Aronson Building ready for next act as home of new Four Seasons
SF Business Times
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