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
Hyperspace has created a 35m2 studio in Hertfordshire with a façade made of 850 scales of charred timber, contrasting with interior finishes of pale poplar plywood panels under white oiled timber rafters
Citizens Design Bureau has completed its refurbishment of Jacksons Lane Theatre, which is housed in a Grade II-listed former church in London’s Highgate
The project, which involved the refurbishment and extension of a Victorian terraced house, has seen the creation of a top-lit living space that is also designed for music practice
Fran Williams visits Crusader and Phoenix, shedkm’s regeneration of several 1840s Manchester cotton mill buildings to deliver a residential community set around a landscaped courtyard
The £220,000 retrofit project replaces the building’s roof with a new trapezoidal pavilion perched over the water
The practice rescued the 1960 Hampstead house from possible demolition, repairing and reworking it as a new family home
The retrofit of an 1860s house includes a new single-storey extension at the rear, designed to enhance the connection between living spaces and garden
Artefact has completed the retrofit of a 1980s single-aspect house in Islington’s Grove Estate using pigmented timber to create key moves
The Blue House in east London was FAT’s first built project. Twenty years on, former director Sean Griffiths has remodelled and extended it, fulfilling its original design intention
The Swiss practice’s design for the entrance to a mixed-use, former department store building on Oxford Street incorporates polished chrome elements such as circular mirrored columns and a black and white check marble floor
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