Old buildings do not always need a graceful ending. Sometimes they need a new beginning. At OpenSpace Self Storage in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, ADC helped transform an aging industrial property into a durable, functional facility designed for decades of continued use—preserving the existing structure, reusing materials where possible, and giving a piece of the city’s industrial past a practical future.
For North American Subaru’s R&D team, the workplace needed to do more than accommodate people and equipment. It needed to become part of the design process itself — a place to imagine, model, study, compare, question, and refine what comes next.
That made this project less about designing an office and more about understanding how creative work happens.
Existing buildings are rarely blank slates, but that does not make them dead ends. Structure, access, utilities, parking, and location can still hold tremendous value when viewed differently. From large-format retail repositioning to targeted adaptive reuse, ADC looks at what can be preserved, what should change, and how existing buildings can support an entirely new future.