Future Fest: Reimagining West Coast Architecture Through Renovation and Adaptive Reuse

Architizer

Recently, principal/owner Kirsten Ring Murray, FAIA, presented the transformation of 8899 Beverly Boulevard at Architizer Future Fest, as part of a panel featuring select winners of the 2025 Architizer A+ Awards.

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For decades, renovation and adaptive reuse were treated as secondary modes of practice — practical, often sustainable, but rarely positioned at the center of architectural ambition. That perception is now shifting. Today, adaptive reuse, expansion and renovation projects are increasingly recognized as some of the discipline’s most rigorous and culturally relevant work, earning top honors and reshaping how architectural authorship is understood.

As practices increasingly turn away from the blank slate, existing buildings have become one of architecture’s most fertile design contexts. Working within inherited structures and established formal logics, architects are using interventions on existing structures to reassert the most essential aspects of architectural craft.

This panel, featuring speakers from Foster + Partners, Olson Kundig and ZGF Architects, examines how adaptive reuse and renovation have emerged as a primary site of contemporary architectural practice. Through A+Award-winning projects that span landmark retrofits and infrastructural expansions, our speakers will consider how renovation is elevating architectural craft and positioning reuse as a defining architectural commission of our time.Ask

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