Discussion: Conversion – Balancing Cost Effectiveness and Historic Preservation

In the 1980s the general consensus among architects and planners was that enough buildings had been built. The ecological costs of demolition and replacement were deemed a lasting deterrent. But by the 1990s the tide had turned: the available building stock was often unsuitable, in the wrong location, unprofitable, or no longer up to snuff. Conversion is more than modernisation;...