Different Perspectives
My husband Bart co-owns a bar/restaurant in our small lake town. If you’ve read this column before, you’re aware that this business has been a…
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Behind the Scenes: The 2022 Metamorphosis Awards Judges Were Previous Winners
retrofit’s fourth-annual Metamorphosis Awards program tapped four previous winners as judges: Katie Hunt, architect, LRK; Amanda Markovic, AIA, principal, GBBN; Charles Van Winckle, vice president,…
An Elite Penn State Building Is Opened to the Outdoors and Campus
2nd Place, Interior Tucked into a grove of trees at the edge of Penn State’s main campus in University Park, architect Robert Venturi initially envisioned…
Material Reuse: The New Frontier of Carbon and Waste Reduction
The building sector is responsible for more than 40 percent of all carbon-dioxide emissions, which contribute to climate change. One approach to drastically reducing emissions…
Reinvention
One of my college friends just embarked on a new career at—I hate to say it—the mid-point of his life. My friend Dan spent his…
An Adaptive Reuse Transports Pittsburgh’s Past into the Present
1st Place, Adaptive Reuse Touring Pittsburgh’s Roundhouse five years ago, it would have been a stretch to visualize the decrepit building as a hub of…