建筑师们找到了多种很有创意的方法将这些历史悠久的建筑改建为售价高达数百万美元的宅邸和公寓。这些教堂的天花板通常高达40至50英尺(约合12米至15米),室内很少或没有 壁,配有彩色玻璃窗。
But it isn't an easy process: Not only do the structures need intensive interior reconstruction and upgrades to meet modern building codes, but they often have been granted landmark status, further complicating renovations.
但这不是一个简单的过程:除了其种种结构需要密集的内部改造和升级以符合现代建筑规范外,这些教堂往往已经成为当地的地标性建筑,这进一步加大了翻修的难度。
'The good news with churches is that you have 40-foot-tall ceilings, but the bad news is that you have 40-foot ceilings,' says Continuum Co. chief executive and developer Ian Bruce Eichner, who in the early 1980s renovated an 1846 Greek Revival-style church in Manhattan's Greenwich Village to create 15 co-op units. 'And because churches are usually landmarks, you can't change the facade,' he adds. Most big urban renovations cost about $10 million and can take two to four years, or in the case of the Seattle project, about $12 million over a five-year period.
房地产开发商Continuum Co.的首席执行长伊恩·布鲁斯·艾施纳(Ian Bruce Eichner)说:“在改建教堂时,高达40英尺(约合12米)的天花板既是优势,也是劣势。在上世纪80年代初期,艾施纳曾将纽约曼哈顿格林威治村(Greenwich Village)一座建于1846年的希腊复兴风格的教堂改建成可供15户业主居住的公寓楼。他说:“由于教堂通常都是地标性建筑,所以你不能改变其外立面。多数位于城市的教堂翻修大项目花费约1,000万美元,需要两到四年才能完工。上述西雅图那个项目则花费约1,200万美元,耗时五年才完工。
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