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Old Posted Jul 10, 2012, 2:33 AM
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Here are two great metamorphosis that occured in Sherbrooke in the last few years.

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Very impressive.
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Old Posted Jul 10, 2012, 5:12 AM
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After renovation...
This is a great rehab and a handsome building. Do you know the original architect? It resembles a couple of John Wellborn Root buildings (i.e., The Rookery in Chicago Society for Savings Building in Cleveland).
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Old Posted Jul 11, 2012, 7:30 AM
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A few more local one in Lansing...

The Arbaugh was built as a department store, then turned into a state office building, and then rehabilitated as an apartment building (first floor commercial, underground parking) in 2005. It was coated in a gold glass curtain-wall hung pretty far from the facade, so the original facade was pretty well preserved beneath.


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The Knapps Centre was originally built as a department store, turned into a state office, and is now underground preliminary renovation work to turn it into a mixed-used structure (company headquarters, business incubator, office space, top floor apartments, first floor retail and underground parking). The skin will be kept, though, they are trying to change the block glass windows, but not so much as to disqualify it for historic tax credits.


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Knapp's Office Building by I am Jacques Strappe, on Flickr

The views from the rooftop deck are going to be pretty nice:


washington at dusk by sporadicity, on Flickr


grand dusk by sporadicity, on Flickr


capitol dusk by sporadicity, on Flickr
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wow, that's what Denver should have done instead of the ho-hum new urbanist neighborhood in the place of their old airport.
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^we actually used Denver as a 'what worked, what didnt' in some of our studies. That said, the images above are quite, how do you say, ideal in a conceptual sort of way... it will be interesting to look back in 10-30 years and see what is actually there.
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Old Posted Jul 28, 2012, 6:39 AM
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This is a great rehab and a handsome building. Do you know the original architect? It resembles a couple of John Wellborn Root buildings (i.e., The Rookery in Chicago Society for Savings Building in Cleveland).
Sorry it took so long to answer this.....The Redstone Building in Davenport Iowa was designed by German immigrant and Davenport resident Frederick G. Clausen and, yes, he used the Rookery as his inspiration for this structure.
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Old Posted Jul 28, 2012, 6:45 AM
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That North St. Louis neighborhood rehab looks great, Centropolis.
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