H O S T E L L I N G I N T E R N AT I O N A L B O S T O N Hostel TAKEOVER Bergmeyer converts an aging industrial building in Boston into a boutique-style lodging destination for Hostelling International. BY MAT THEW HALL 20 Boutique Design | September+October 2012 B ergmeyer Associates Inc. had never worked on a hostel before. That did not deter the architecture/interior design firm from bidding to create a new, high-profile hostel within the confines of a historic industrial building in its hometown of Boston. “We have a long history of doing adaptive-reuse projects, bringing new uses such as affordable housing or student residences to old industrial or warehouse buildings,” says Mike Davis, Bergmeyer’s principal-incharge of the project. “We were also very experienced with projects of this size and working in Boston.”