It’s been said the most sustainable buildings are the ones that already exist. Indeed, adaptive reuse and historic renovation projects have the benefit of preserving existing building materials and the embodied carbon within them, diverting construction waste from landfills and utilizing less energy compared to new construction projects.
Highly anticipated Hotel Marcel, A Tapestry Hotel by Hilton, will be opening its doors in April 2022. An icon of Brutalist architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, the building has a storied past: Completed in 1970 by Bauhaus designer and architect Marcel Breuer to house the headquarters of the Armstrong Rubber Company, it sat empty for decades, with a large portion of the structure demolished at one point to make way for a parking lot.