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
This new nursery at Warner Bros Studios in Hertfordshire for childcare provider The Wonderworks caters specifically for the film industry and uses a palette of robust natural materials in its design
This 3,250m² scheme in central London will operate as a membership organisation offering offices, meeting and viewing rooms, underground storage facilities and a club room, as well as 14 gallery spaces
The first photographs have been released of David Chipperfield’s overhaul of Mies van der Rohe’s celebrated Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin
The practice has completed the full renovation and extension of an Edwardian-era terrace house in north-west London
The London-based studio has transformed an Edwardian semi-detached house into a Postmodern family home with extension topped in fake Disneyland mountain scenery
The Peterborough-based practice has used the metal to clad an extension to a Victorian mid-terrace home
The £220,000 two-bedroom house sits on a narrow plot fronting a river towards which the first-floor cantilevered living room projects
A dilapidated Victorian block in east London has been reworked as a studio for design office Pearson Lloyd, maintaining key traces of its history
With its Anderby Creek retrofit project in Lincolnshire, the practice has created a calming place to unwind that borrows its colours from its beachfront setting. Rob Wilson speaks to Jonathan Hendry about it
The insertion of a mezzanine ‘bedroom box’ transforms an artist’s workspace into a living space
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