2024-11-23T08:20:35-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/132354802/a-student-architect-s-plan-to-repurpose-grain-elevators-into-community-spaces Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-07-21T10:52:00-04:00 >2015-07-25T16:31:22-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/99/992ce0c9096ccc31b6b82f32fb82dcbe?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>[Ali] Piwowar, who studied at Carleton University in Ottawa, wrote her masters thesis in architecture on preserving the heritage of grain elevators by transforming them into community spaces. Saskatchewan once had over 3,000 wooden grain elevators. One by one, however, the structures have been disappearing from the skyline, victims of changing economic and transportation conditions. Today, Piwowar estimates there are around 400 such elevators remaining with only 80 in working order.</p></em><br /><br /><p>More from the world of grain elevators and their reuse potentials:</p><ul><li><a title="The Evil, Evil Grain Elevator" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/30687960/the-evil-evil-grain-elevator" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Evil, Evil Grain Elevator:&nbsp;<em>Places Journal</em>&nbsp;studies how grain elevators can seem both friendly and terrifying.</a></li><li><a title="Stored Potential launches" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/97773/stored-potential-launches" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stored Potential launches: a 2010 competition for an "iconic vacant grain elevator near downtown Omaha".</a></li><li><a title="The Wassaic Project" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/90761/the-wassaic-project" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Wassaic Project: combining art gallery and grain elevator</a></li><li><a title="Grain Elevators" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/45870/grain-elevators" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grain Elevators: on reuse potentials of grain elevators</a></li></ul>