a lift for aloft Adaptive reuse for a Starwood brand By David Kaufman Photography by Graham Hobart The Aloft Downtown Dallas more than proves the old maxim “what is old is new again.” The first and only adaptive reuse property from the almost two-year-old Starwood brand, the hotel is housed in a historic Santa Fe Railroad terminal originally built back in 1923. “The process felt like slipping a new building into an old building while respecting the quality and nature of that original edifice,” says One Group Design architect Ajay Kothari, co-founder of the Irving, Texas-based Sava Group, which developed the property over the past three and a half years. www.hospitalitydesign.com April 2010 205http://www.hospitalitydesign.com