Want to Live in a Baseball Stadium or Spend the Night in an Airport Terminal?

I've heard of lots of differing building types being adaptively re-used for apartments and hotels such as prisons, churches, and factories which all result in cool, trendy, environmentally friendly places to live.

Recently though I learned about two of the coolest adaptive re-use projects I've ever heard of! One involves a baseball stadium in Indianapolis, IN and the other is the TWA terminal at JFK airport in New York City. The baseball stadium has been successfully turned into a mixed use development with loft apartments and the JFK terminal may soon be turned into a boutique hotel.

How cool would it be to live in a stadium or spend the night in a airport (at least when you're not waiting on a delayed flight!)?

Photograph taken from Core Redevelopment 

To learn more about the stadium lofts check out this news segment from FOX News http://fox59.com/2013/06/13/bush-stadium-reinvented-as-stadium-lofts/#axzz2gOr5gLnx

or read more about the project from the developers themselves http://www.coreredevelopment.com/apartments/stadium-lofts/

Photograph taken from buildingnewsnetwork.com

Although, agreements are still underway you can read more about the potential development of a hotel and conference center within the TWA terminal at one of the links below

http://www.buildingnewsnetwork.com/saarinens-jfk-terminal-may-have-future-as-hotel/?goback=%2Egde_94530_member_272583494#%21

http://untappedcities.com/2013/09/24/clarifying-current-status-twa-flight-center-at-jfk-airport-transformation-hotel/

The Evolution of Shopping Malls in the United States

The automobile has had a huge impact on American society from the way we designed our neighborhoods to the way we built our shopping centers.

Making everything accessible to the car was the main goal of designers and new styles of architecture were developed to appeal to passing motorists, including the Googie style (see this wikipedia link for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_architecture).

Shopping Malls with massive parking lots were enticing destinations for shoppers and motorists, who just needed a place for people watching, alike. The development of shopping malls has had a huge impact on American society. The progression of malls reflects the constant changes in architecture and culture in the United States.

Photograph take from Malls of America Blogspot

Check out some of these great blogs discussing the history of shopping malls across the United States!

Mall Hall of Fame- http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/

Malls of America- http://mallsofamerica.blogspot.com/

Sky City: Southern Retail Then and Now- http://skycity2.blogspot.com/