C3 Magazine — "Beloit Powerhouse"
“The design retains architectural features and industrial equipment from the original structures while incorporating new sustainable practices and lively gathering spaces that encourage students to mix with each other and the larger Beloit community. The project also revitalizes the riverside, with which it also creates visual links,” writes Herbert Wright in issue on. 416, focused on heritage buildings and re-use. “Forming these new links between town, gown, and river, the former power plant is now generating a more energetic and vibrant community life.”
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Azure — "In Wisconsin, Studio Gang Revives a Coal Plant into a Recreational Hub"
“While the imposing vestiges of industry still line the banks of the Rock River, a wave of adaptive reuse has gradually ushered in a new economy of offices and recreational hubs. It’s an evolution emphatically and elegantly encapsulated in the revitalization of a decommissioned, century-old power plant into a showpiece multi-purpose complex at Beloit College.”