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
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has adapted the Grade I-listed Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings into a £28 million social enterprise hub for Historic England after first being engaged on the project nearly 20 years ago
This renovation of a five-storey house within the Well Street Common Conservation Area includes a new Crittall-glazed extension
The refurbishment of this garden flat in north London employs the muted tones seen in the domestic interiors depicted by 19th-century Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi
The listed former Department of Education building has been restored and remodelled with 192 guest rooms, event spaces and three bars and restaurants
An abandoned 1939 concrete structure in Ringstead on the Jurassic Coast has been reworked into a 76m² subterranean holiday home
Moll Architects has completed an extension in Lambeth that reuses original yellow London stock brick as cladding and is fitted with bespoke furniture made by local craftsmen
Levitt Bernstein has completed the £10 million reworking and ‘rationalisation’ of the UAL College of Arts campus in Wimbledon
Wisteria House in Birmingham by local practice Intervention Architecture is a two-storey side extension with double-height void, designed for future trailing of wisteria to wrap around its façades
John Robertson Architects (JRA) has refurbished the former headquarters and printworks of the Daily Mail, which was in use as a newspaper office until the 1980s
The Glasgow practice has retrofitted a former printing works in the north of the city into a co-working hub, events space and canteen for Agile City
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