The best way of saving a threatened, obsolete or functionally irrelevant structure is to give it a new life. One solution is renovation, which means updating the structure functionally and/or aesthetically in ways that allow it to serve its original purpose as well as a new replacement would, while retaining its original identity. The gift of life may also mean finding a new use for a structure, and adapting it functionally and aesthetically to serve the new use’s demands. This is called adaptive re-use, and usually involves many of the aspects of renovation as well. We believe that the built environment plays a large role in defining our society, and relish every opportunity to help historic structures retain a vital role in that on-going definition.

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