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Looking at the potential for adaptive reuse in the St. Louis market with HOK’s Eli Hoisington

2024-02-08T12:38:00-05:00

Over the past two decades, St. Louis has gained recognition for its growing bioscience sector. In its 2030 STL Job Plan, Greater St. Louis Inc. identified bioscience (and related fields of agtech and life sciences) as critical to the continued success of our region. To continue to fuel research and innovation in this sector, St. Louis needs talent, capital and partner institutions. It also needs the right labs and buildings.

More and more universities and colleges are pursuing adaptive reuse projects of the kind Hoisington and his team at HOK’s local office completed recently for Washington University in St. Louis in the West End Cortex Innovation Community. As he described, the method is also an increasingly preferred solution for the biotech and life sciences industries. St. Louis has joined Dallas in competing with established hubs like Boston-Cambridge and Pittsburgh for a larger share of the market for both.

Looking to the future, studies have suggested the global markets for adaptive reuse and biotechnology to reach $47 billion and $1.3 trillion, respectively, USD by the end of this decade.

HOK has published a primer on adaptive reuse and laboratory design.

Last Blockbuster on Earth recreates a 90s living room for Airbnb sleepovers

2020-08-13T15:12:00-04:00

The last remaining Blockbuster video rental store in the world is now available for sleepovers. Hosted by Airbnb, residents of Deschutes County can book one of the three available nights at the storesleep over. According to The Oregonian, a household of up to four people will have free rein of the store's entire film collection plus free pizza, Pepsi, and popcorn.

The store has recreated a 1990's living room with a "hide-a-bed" sofa, bean bag chair, and a Sony VHS player, reports The Oregonian. The store crew will be abiding by CDC guidelines and Airbnb's enhanced cleaning procedures.

A documentary was recently released about the store called The Last Blockbuster, created by Oregon filmmakers Taylor Morden and Zeke Kamm.

Restoration Home: nostalgia, architecture and murder

2011-07-05T12:35:39-04:00

Olly Grant talks to some of the people behind a new BBC Two series on turning crumbling buildings, laden with history, into sleek modern homes.