❋ GHOSTLAB celebrates elements of overlooked architecture: the traces left behind on a building by human-scale intervention that are often read as insignificant or deviant. These “ghosts” of a building’s different lives are embedded with human narratives, revealing their deviance from original architectural authorship as evidence of expanded heritage value, rather than blight. GHOSTLAB advocates for the close reading and consideration of such ghosts—which are often cast off as “deviant” in advocacy of a building’s demolition—instead as evidence of a building’s heritage value for preservation and reuse.