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
Hugh Broughton Architects has converted a listed but derelict church into a community and business incubator hub while preserving and restoring many of its original features, writes Fran Williams
Caruso St John and Bovenbouw Architectuur have transformed an insurance HQ into a multi-use building, including a hotel, workspaces and gym
Jonathan Tuckey Design has completed the first phase of a light-touch conversion of a former factory on the island of Henningsvær in Norway into a hotel and cultural hub
A 1980s city-centre Modernist building has been stripped back with the upper floors, previously offices, transformed into 200 flats
INCH Architecture + Design and Sheppard Robson have preserved and reworked a prominent disused Victorian industrial structure in Glasgow
Hoskins’ long-awaited transformation of the Scottish Galleries at the National in Edinburgh opened to the public last Saturday (30 September 2023)
Two Belfast practices have completed the meanwhile adaptation of an 1869 branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland into a ‘sheltered public space’
Coffey Architects has completed 400 mixed-tenure homes plus a gallery and studios in a series of new and retrofitted buildings in south London
The £1.7 million retrofit of Olympia House in Bridgeton, Glasgow, turns a former Salvation Army Citadel into 280m² of commercial office space, featuring a sculptural metal entrance tower
The practice has extended and remodelled an Arts and Crafts house in Surrey, using traditional terracotta hung tiles
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