The project approaches the existing building playfully through adaptive reuse, sometimes collapsing the differences between the old and the new, and sometimes emphasising them to a point of daring juxtaposition. What it achieves with distinction is the verticality of the landscape that, through a texture of roughness and refinement, the built and the grown produce a dramatic and dazzling effect, rendering the space porous, mysterious, and engaging. The adaptive reuse strategy is unapologetic in its retention of the bluntly exposed brick and concrete, drawing upon a distinctly American lineage of industrial conversions. The result is a productive tension between control and weathering within contemporary re-occupation, allowing the entropy of time to remain legible and experienced throughout this new mixed-use district. - from the award statements
