Adaptive reuse

ZWOF Manila 2026 Philippines Public realmAdaptive reuseMaterialityPhilippinesGreen certification

Belonging in three parts: look like it, perform like it, feel like it

Carmelo Arancon, Ian Fulgar, Richard M. Garcia, Dominic Galicia, Cathy Saldaña & John Patrick Anthony L. Buensalido

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonRetrofitAdaptive reusePortugalDecarbonisation

Transformar edifícios: porque a reabilitação, e não a demolição, é a chave da descarbonização

Liliana Soares, Cláudia Sousa Monteiro, André Caiado, Marcus Cerdeira & Rodrigo Félix

ZWOF Lisbon 2026 Portugal Embodied carbonAdaptive reusePortugalFifth façadeCertification

Oriente Green Campus: keep, edit, add, a concrete ruin turned into a campus

John Bushell, Tiago Sallas & Miguel Barbas

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands NetherlandsAdaptive reuseWhole-life carbonUrban densityValue chain

Carbon decisions extend beyond the building

Boudewijn Thomas, Gideon Maasland, Joris Winters, Mattijs van Ruijven & Stefan Prins

ZWOF Rotterdam 2026 Netherlands Embodied carbonNetherlandsAdaptive reuseFaçade optimizationProcurement

Optimize before you procure

Ana Araújo & Anke Rollenhagen

ZWOF Phoenix 2026 United States Solar controlUSAPublic realmAdaptive reuseDesert design

Beyond shade: designing desert façades as environmental infrastructure

Jay Silverberg & Martha DePlazaola Abbott

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania AlbaniaFaçade designAdaptive reuseMaterial identityWeathering

Material gives architecture its memory

Marco Casamonti

ZWOF Tirana 2026 Albania Solar shadingAlbaniaAdaptive reuseEnvironmental designFaçade expression

Expression starts with environmental logic

Catherine Huang

ZWOF Istanbul 2026 Turkey Adaptive reuseTurkeyMixed useRetailFlexible façades

Perakendeden karma kullanıma: değişen program için esnek cepheler

Enis Öncüoğlu

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada GRCEmbodied carbonRetrofitAdaptive reuseCanada

Fuzzy: how a 1975 bunker got a hand-sprayed skin and a front door

Kyle Auch

ZWOF Calgary 2026 Canada RetrofitAdaptive reuseCanadaBuilding scienceHeritage façades

Designating a building to keep it: Petro Fina and Calgary’s conversions

Joshua Taron, Christopher Zahaluk, David Leonard, Maxim Olshevsky & Steve Wirzba

ZWOF Los Angeles 2026 United States USAAdaptive reuseHistoric preservationOffice conversionHousing

The envelope decides conversion potential

Olivier Sommerhalder, D. Rocky Rockefeller, Ken Bernstein & Jeffrey A. Caldwell

ZWOF Washington DC 2026 United States USAAdaptive reuseWashington DCDurabilitySustainable façades

Sustainable façades start with long service

Robert Miller

ZWOF Washington DC 2026 United States USAAdaptive reuseWashington DCLife science façadesLaboratories

Healthy laboratories need differentiated envelopes

Matt O'Malley, John Barbara, Tyler Grimshaw & Daniel Lucenti

ZWOF Washington DC 2026 United States Building enclosureUSAOffice-to-residentialAdaptive reuseCondition assessment

Conversion feasibility starts at the enclosure

Amanda Stacy

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain Adaptive reuseBarcelonaSpainIndustrial heritageMedia facilities

Reutilizar empieza por conservar espacio útil

Esteban de Backer

ZWOF Barcelona 2026 Spain Adaptive reuseSpainOffice retrofitClimate responseCircular design

La fachada más verde puede ser la que ya existe

Enrique Molinero & Lars Sorensen

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ArchitectureAdaptive reuseUKDurabilityLongevity

Designing façades that can survive changing ideas

Simon Allford

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom RetrofitAdaptive reuseUKPlanningViability

Retrofit needs planning, engineering and viability in the same room

Ana Araújo, Ivan Kaye, John Meredith & Laurence Brooker

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom Embodied carbonWorkplaceAdaptive reuseUKFuture fit

Future-fit buildings begin with transformation, not replacement

Harry Cliffe-Roberts

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ReuseAdaptive reuseUKTransformationPublic architecture

Turning a central bank back into a public building

Francine Houben

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom ReuseRetrofitAdaptive reuseUKCarbon

Value-up starts with what a building already has

Dan Gleeson & Stephen Tanno

ZWOF London 2025 United Kingdom HeritageHotelFaçade retentionAdaptive reuseUK

A former embassy becomes a hotel without erasing its history

Iain Bleakley, Ioannis Gkikas, Jason Sandy, Matt Jarvis & Ryan Butterfield

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USAAdaptive reuseHistoric preservationMasonry restorationArt deco

A century, matched: restoring the Waldorf Astoria's envelope

Frank Mahan, Jonathan Taylor, Kevin Kim & Victoria Ponce de Leon

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USAStructural glassAdaptive reuseGlass fabricationNatural ventilation

Poetic intent, physical reality: a life in structural glass

Hugh Dutton

ZWOF New York 2025 United States USAAdaptive reuseTerracottaHistoric preservationBrick

Lace and turrets: two contemporary façades in historic New York

David Kubik & Todd Poisson

ZWOF Tbilisi 25 Georgia GeorgiaPublic realmAdaptive reuseUrban regenerationPlacemaking

Design for good: giving more back to place

Jan Dijkema

ZWOF Sydney 2025 Australia Façade engineeringHeritageAustraliaAdaptive reuseWeatherproofing

Adaptive reuse puts façade engineers in the business of proving what already exists

Neil Kendrick