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RetroFirst is an AJ campaign to prioritise retrofit over demolition and rebuild. Hundreds of architecture practices, organisations and individuals have declared their support for our campaign

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Introducing RetroFirst: a new AJ campaign championing reuse in the built environment

Amid the escalating climate crisis, Will Hurst introduces the AJ’s campaign to prioritise retrofitting existing buildings over demolition and rebuild

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Want to make your office retrofit future-proof? Here’s how
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AHMM scheme involving five demolitions approved by ‘retrofit-first’ council
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Court backs demolition of Glasgow’s Wyndford towers
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Watch: AJ & SAVE’s re:store charrette on M&S’s Oxford St store
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In simplifying office-to-resi conversions, PDR is on the right track
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High Court rejects bid to save Birmingham’s Ringway Centre
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Sergison Bates wins Belgian university contest with radical revamp plan
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M&S Oxford St charrette shows architects’ appetite for adaptive reuse

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  5. Herzog & de Meuron to resubmit ‘substantially different’ Liverpool St scheme
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  9. AHMM wins approval for part-demolition office scheme next to Westminster Abbey
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RetroFirst Stories

Retrofit & sustainable buildings

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Fletcher Priest reworks 9,300sqm office building in London’s West End

Fletcher Priest Architects has comprehensively renovated and extended Marylebone Place, retaining 85 per cent of the existing structure and adding three storeys

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Making the most of what you have: Cockpit by Cooke Fawcett Architects

Declining a developer’s offer to buy its 1960s former office block in Deptford and move into a new build scheme nearby, arts incubator Cockpit instead commissioned Cooke Fawcett Architects to perform a delicate, light-touch makeover. Ellie Duffy reports back

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AWW’s 28-storey tower on Bristol Debenhams site gets the OK
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Final six make the cut in M&S Oxford Street ideas contest
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M&S Oxford Street ideas contest longlist revealed
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Neave Brown listed estate faces ‘irreversible damage’ from heating upgrade
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Mowat & Company wins approval for all-wood overhaul of timber merchant HQ
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Westminster’s retrofit-first plan: ‘The architecture profession is on the bus’
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RetroFirst Stories: OEB and Arrant Land on turning a church hall into homes
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Whatever the project, the future must include the past
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RetroFirst Stories: AHMM on saving a 1970s Mayfair office from demolition
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Glasgow towers demolition: images of replacement scheme unveiled
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M&S claims unlawful Gove decision caused ‘long, unnecessary and costly delays’
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M&S wins High Court battle over Gove’s Oxford Street decision
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