What we learned from rebuilding a 1920s warehouse — twice
All articles May 3, 2026 4:30:01 PM · Studio Nope

What we learned from rebuilding a 1920s warehouse — twice

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The Riverside warehouse came across our desks twice — first as a partial demolition in 2018, then again last year as a full structural retrofit. In between, the building taught us more about adaptive reuse than any course we could have attended.

Read the building before you read the drawings

The 1923 plans turned out to be aspirational, not as-built. We now insist on a full point-cloud survey before our designers touch a thing.