The book deals with architectural solutions that recognize building stock as a valuable resource. Valuing the existing is the best starting point for a completely open-minded approach: appreciating that the dilapidated, the strange and the ordinary are architectural resources worth taking seriously can lead to potential new directions in architecture. This book presents projects and perspectives by architects who chose a positive, empowering view of existing structures as an inspiration and motivation for further development. Identities settled somewhere between new and old.