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Fig. 6.12 The Wile Carding Museum, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Credit to Dennis Jarvis.

early settlement, and the local cultural and industrial growth. The Museum also oper-
ates the Wile Carding Mill. The Wile Carding Mill was officially designed by a
municipal heritage property by the Town of Bridgewater in 2013: in this way its integ-
rity and historic character are protected under the Heritage Property Act of Nova Sco-
tia (Wile Carding Museum, 2017)(Fig. 6.12).

Mills converted to residential uses (apartments, hotels, etc.)
The transformation of the Granary on Vienna Handeskai, Austria, into a luxury hotel
can be partly viewed as a failure. The colossal Granary was constructed in 1912–13. It
was shaped as a reinforced concrete framed building, a design reflected in the facade
with its grid of vertical supports and horizontal beams. The Granary remained oper-
ating until 1982. It was only the high cost of demolition that saved the building and led
to its reuse.
On one side, the conversion to a luxury hotel did mean the survival of the giant
structure that dominates on the Danube, but the new buildings added to the original
construction, the selection of materials, surface finishing, and execution details cre-
ated a substantially new appearance. The preservation of the building as an industrial
monument was lost to the constraints of new use (Stadler, n.d.).
Nadler Hotel is situated in a former engineering works in Liverpool, UK
(Historic England, 2019a). The reuse was selected because of its location, in the
middle of an area designated for regeneration. It opened in June 2010. Nadler
Hotel was in 2015 the number two rated hotel on Trip Advisor in Liverpool
(October 16, 2015).