Two vacant office buildings near the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., are being turned into more than 500 apartments. (Valerie Plesch for NPR) The room looks like your typical office ...

Transformations are taking hold in cities across the U.S. as developers and local governments work hand-in-hand to solve two problems: a housing shortage and a surplus of empty office buildings. From ...

Just outside Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., sits an office building you could find in almost any downtown in the U.S. - big, gray, industrial. What style would you say? Is this brutalist or is ...

The room looks like your typical office suite: white walls, low ceilings, gray carpet worn thin from years of foot traffic. But for this vacant office outside Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., real ...