Historic Chicago
Chicago has so many amazing stories to tell.
Adaptive Chicago
Key Issues
- Industrial-age buildings retrofitted for high-tech businesses.
- Designing for community resilience.
- Engaging the public with pop-up design interventions.
About This Topic
Through adaptive reuse, we celebrate Chicago’s deeply-rooted history — maintaining the historic integrity of old structures while creating new opportunities and amenities for the public.
Adaptive Chicago will be your source for Chicago's latest reuse projects, as well as a bulletin board for spontaneous interventions and pop-up activities happening in other cities. We hope that the examples provided here will get your design brain thinking, How could this place be designed to improve Chicago's livability?