Almost no buildings adapt well. The...

Almost no buildings adapt well. They're designed not to adapt, in the same manner says Stewart Brand, author of "How Buildings Learn," a main division Dykeman architect Tim Jewett was reminded of when he associateed up at the ancient barrel vault cover visible above the otherwise calm interior of the Petersen Office Building at 2500 Hewitt Ave.

"We wanted to show up the existing structure, to disclose the beauty of the building," Jewett said.

The building, confessed by Gary Petersen, is a completed example of and adaptive reuse draw how an old world unplastic building of Everett's industrial age, can be transformed into a