The AJ champions the retrofit of existing buildings with the AJ Retrofit Awards and the RetroFirst campaign. Here you can find good examples of how architects have reused existing buildings, or designed highly sustainable buildings
Together with planting by Studio Knight Stokoe, the completed scheme renews and revives the celebrated Grade II-listed Mountbatten House office building designed by Arup Associates in 1976
John Robertson Architects (JRA) has reconfigured 30-31 Golden Square, just north of Piccadilly Circus in central London, as offices for client Aviva Investors
Designed in collaboration with the client, interior designer Celia McCarthy, the façade has been wrapped in high-performance insulation and cedar cladding with the interiors reworked in a bold palette of colours
The 8,600m2 Waterman scheme offers six floors of workspace, a coworking lounge designed in collaboration with Fettle, roof terraces and two retail units
Threefold Architects has completed the ‘deep retrofit’ of a Neoclassical office building on London’s Regent Street for The Crown Estate
Freehaus has completed the first phase of the refurbishment of local landmark, the Grade II-listed 639 Community Enterprise Centre on Tottenham High Road, north-east London
Vinyl House is a retrofit of a two-storey home in east London, completed for £400,000, for a music-loving client
The detached house in Prestbury, Cheshire, now has a renewed façade and has been thermally upgraded and internally remodelled
The restoration and rework of Greycoat Stores in Westminster accommodates retail and leisure uses and a restaurant in addition to workspace
With its Edinburgh Futures Institute retrofit, Bennetts Associates has breathed new life into one of the Scottish capital’s major architectural landmarks
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