Adaptive Reuse

...is cool for so many reasons: it is sustainable, it creates original and surprising architecture and it echoes a concept that can be semi-academically (oh yeah...) described as continuity in time: the specific history of a place or structure is preserved and another layer is added to it. Something that seems remarkably ethical and smart in times where a huge amount of trash (architectural as well) is being produced which in a while becomes problematic to dispose of.