The Challenges of Adaptive Reuse: Charlotte’s Camp North End Remains a Work in Progress

Henry Ford’s Fordlandia experiment remains one of the most astonishing and improbable chapters in industrial history: a Midwestern company town carved into the Amazon rainforest in the late 1920s. A recent report from TV station WOOD/NBC/Grand Rapids revisits this bold venture, exploring Ford’s attempt to secure his own rubber supply…

Albert Kahn's Angell Hall on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor.

In June 1942, Time magazine published a 1,300‑word profile of Albert Kahn. World War II was the big story and it dominated nearly every page of the publication. The issue’s cover story examined top German General Franz Halder’s plans for the second year of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet…

The Foundation applauds the planned preservation and adaptive reuse of the Ford Motor Company building in Salt Lake City, as reported by KSL/NBC/Salt Lake City. Completed in 1924, it’s a rare example of Kahn’s western industrial work. The construction of the building marked Ford’s arrival in the Intermountain West and…

One of the most thoughtful historic preservation initiatives recently undertaken has been the adaptive reuse of Detroit’s Albert Kahn Building, which is now known simply as The Kahn. Kraemer Design Group’s detailed narrative of the work done on the building’s original bronze windows offers a fascinating look at the precision,…