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the house warm in the winter and cool in the summer and reuses most of the heat. To
improve the mill’s energy budget, there are also 10-kW PV roof panels, triple-glazed
windows, and well-insulated walls (Wisbech Standard, 2017).
The Himmelreich & Zwicker Cloth factory was built at Linz, Austria, in 1908 as a
cotton spinning mill. After it was closed down, some entrepreneurs purchased the site
and turned it into a cloth factory in the late 1930s. The Linz Himmelreich & Zwicker
factory was profitable for several decades, but eventually closed in 1980. For a few
years thereafter, the ownership changed hands repeatedly with no success. In 1986,
a public opinion party managed to rescue the factory from dismantlement. Lengthy
negotiations finally obtained that a revitalization project was selected in 1991. The
integration of a church in the former factory is a persuasive and remarkable new
approach to reuse. The main entrance to the church is rightly situated in the main
facade flanked by two towers, with the trade name “Himmelreich & Zwicker” well
visible in the tympanum (Stadler, n.d.).
In 2002, the Lanitis carob mill factory, Limassol, Cyprus was transformed in 2002
into an exhibition space and a venue for different social events. The Carob Mill
Museum displays the technology and equipment used to process carob beans. The
lower and upper floors of the former factory still retain old British equipment, such
as conveyor belts used to clean and process the fruits, weight scales and others. Orig-
inal drawings and descriptions tell the story of the industry before mechanization. The
site hosts many restaurants (Fig. 6.13)(Cyprus for Travelers, n.d.).

Fig. 6.13 Former carob mill, Limassol, Cyprus.
Photo by M. Laraia, 2012.