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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I'm sorry thats an ugly rundown box made out of bricks.
I'd have knocked it down too. Its not like you can magically make a old building fit current needs and standards. Sure its soild, they didn't have a choice in those days, though soild doesn't mean its any stronger, just heavier.
It has no artistic value, it has no functional value, its going to cost way more to convert it to something useful.
As for resusing materials, if you mean at the same site, most likely not very often, but bricks themselves are often recycled.
I'm sorry but thats just an eye sore.
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Yea, as that is, it is an eyesore, but most if it (the site) was pretty cool.( Iposted that one to show the size) The bricks will probably go to a recycled materials business, but I mean reuse them right there; either as paving, new walls, etc.
One factory in the same town as the Michelin one did get rehabilitated into very expensive condos-they even left the original entrances and interior brick walls, with remortaring and adding things like new windows, an extension to the back and penthouse style 5th floor. It's really beautiful. Unfortunately, that is not done very often. In Jersey City, Secaucus and Hoboken, old factories are being turned into condos and in Kansas City, an entire district has been rehabilitated into an arts community. It can be done; it just seems tearing down and/or encroachment is the quicker and cheapest way and there needs to be more incentive for them not to be.
This is some of the detail of that same eyesore. To me, this looks perfectly rehabitable and the brickwork is very attractive-probably the older part of the complex.
