February 2014

Letter from Quito, Ecuador – CENTRO HISTORICO

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I am staying in a Posada on a narrow cobblestone street, a five minute walk from the Independence Plaza, also known as the Grand Plaza, […]

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Letter From QUITO – La Posada Colonial

Leave a Comment / Adaptive Re-use of Space, Architecture, Dining, Ecuador, South/Central America

If you want authentic, this is it!! If you want the Hilton or The Four Seasons this is not it…………. but it is a wonderful

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Quito: Casa Gangotena

Leave a Comment / Adaptive Re-use of Space, Architecture, Ecuador, Hospitality, Hotels

QUITO – Casa Gangotena I walked. And walked. And walked some more around the Old Town and each time, I would stumble on something I

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Hi, I’m Phyl!

I’m a lapsed travel writer and photographer and have been absent from these pages for too long.

My niche is: “adaptive re-use of space” which translates to re-using or re-purposing old buildings for a new life while retaining their historic integrity. This is gaining momentum world wide and we are seeing old buildings such as banks and post offices transformed into high fashion boutique hotels, abandoned warehouses becoming restaurants and coffee houses, and revivifying entire neighborhoods that would otherwise have been flattened by the bulldozer. What’s old is new again and people love the patina of age that enhances these developments and sets them apart from new construction.

Please read on to see where I’ve been more recently and what I’ve been doing.

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Letter from Quito, Ecuador – CENTRO HISTORICO

Letter From QUITO – La Posada Colonial

Quito: Casa Gangotena

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