The Bandsaw Building is a single-story brick structure on a small lot in Birmingham, Alabama. An on-ramp leading to an elevated highway runs behind the property, part of a network of freeways that extend over the city’s postindustrial extents like a spiderweb. Here, at the edge of downtown, David Baker Architects (DBA) has worked adaptive reuse magic: There is no parking save for a handful of bike racks; the designers actually decreased the conditioned square footage of the existing space; the walls are largely unfinished, showing their layers of paint; and a mishmash of salvaged materials is deployed both structurally and, even, decoratively.
These design decisions—made
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