Abstract: With the transition of human society from industrial civilization to information civilization, industrial buildings built in cities in the industrial era have been gradually idled or abandoned, and in the process of continuous renewal and development, cities have changed from incremental expansion to connotation enhancement. Old industrial buildings as urban stock in China is bound to face recycling again. The paper introduced the recycling concept, taking Taiyuan’s old factory of pipe workshop as an example, and combined the three steps of overall safety control, self-recycling, and urban linkage development to explore the elements and methods of urban recycling and recycling of old industrial buildings. Its purpose was to promote the stable and continuous development of cities.