AAP NYC Buzz word #1

Adaptive Reuse – OK if you were in attendance during the first week’s High Line analysis presentations this word would have been the free space in your architecture bingo card. Not a novel idea at all simply one of those things that reached its tipping points in studios. Meant to refer to any building re-purposed for new program or renovation, it now conjures up the idea of sleek contemporary gutting of an industrial or ‘historic’ built work – architectural equivalent of faux vintage; street cred’ a la carte.