All refurbishment articles
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Building StudySpace House: 1960s icon gets another chance to shine
Centrepoint’s little sister was realised by the same architect and developer and built with similar pioneering techniques. Neglected for the past four decades, a recent refurbishment restores and celebrates the building’s groundbreaking architectural qualities
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NewsIn Pictures: Bennetts Associates’ University of Edinburgh learning centre
The category A listed building underwent a transformation from dilapidated former hospital to study facility
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NewsRSHP completes redevelopment for two Knightsbridge hotels
Integrated hotel project seeks to balance context with contemporary architecture
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NewsFathom reimagines user experience at 2 Pancras Square
A refreshed design at 2 Pancras Square enhances workplace connectivity and wellbeing
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NewsBDP and Arup unveil plans for refurbishment of iconic James Stirling building
Work on major restoration and refurbishment due to begin in 2025
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NewsRIBA’s plans to refurbish its 66 Portland Place headquarters get public airing
Planning application for £85m ‘House of Architecture’ project to be submitted later this year
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NewsIn pictures: Former Michigan Central Station reopens its doors as research and technology hub
Historic train station to house tech facility
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Building StudyHow Corstorphine & Wright are reimagining Bloomsbury's Victoria House as a life sciences hub
The grand former headquarters of the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society is being converted into a state of the art life sciences laboratory. Thomas Lane reports on an unlikely reinvention
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NewsIn pictures: Groupwork’s Greville Street
Groupwork creates a diaphonous new skin for 1970s office block that playfully recalls earlier structures on same site
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FeaturesAYA 2023 shortlists: Refurbishment Architect of the Year Award
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Refurbishment Architect shortlist
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NewsIn pictures: LOM’s 250 Bishopsgate retrofit
Practice transforms 20-year-old Spitalfields office building for NatWest Group
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ReviewReview | RIBA Climate Guide
A new guide to delivering sustainable places misses an opportunity to highlight the centrality of reuse in addressing climate change, writes Laura Baron
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Features‘Communicating the value of architecture’: why Muyiwa Oki wants to shift the debate on reuse
Muyiwa Oki wants to refocus the profession and architectural education on a broad reuse agenda. In the second instalment of a two-part interview with Building Design, he talks to Ben Flatman about the event he is hosting with The Prince’s Foundation and why urgent change is necessary
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Building StudyHolbein Gardens: Barr Gazetas’ exemplar net zero office refurbishment
Armed with new net zero carbon targets, Grosvenor and their architect tested these out on a tired 1980s office building near Sloane Square
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NewsIn pictures: The Northcliffe by John Robertson Architects
JRA completes extensive revamp of former Daily Mail headquarters
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NewsMake transforms former government office building into new Sydney hotel
Early 20th century office building by George McRae has been restored and extensively remodelled
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FeaturesAYA 2022 shortlists: Refurbishment Architect of the Year
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Refurbishment shortlist
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Building StudyBuilding study: The Marlo by Barbara Weiss Architects
This extensive refurbishment and restoration project in Marylebone provides impact without the need to shout about it, writes Ben Flatman
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Building StudyBuilding study: Technique by Buckley Gray Yeoman
Buckley Gray Yeoman’s refurb and extension of a former Clerkenwell gin distillery is a fine example of how to revitalise an old industrial building and repair the wider urban fabric.
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BlogsThe camera never lies
Elizabeth Hopkirk finds archive photographs of the South Bank Centre tell a selective story