All Retrofit articles
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NewsEric Parry Architects completes retrofit of 11 Belgrave Road
Project retains 35% of the original structure and makes extensive use of bio-based materials
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OpinionStriking the balance: Retrofit priorities through a planner’s lens
While the need to avoid demolition is more urgent than ever, there are many challenges to overcome before a building can be retained. The new government could do much to improve the current system, writes Avison Young’s Laura Jenkinson
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from thinking differently about retrofit?
If we are going to build less, does that mean we need to maintain more, asks Anna Beckett
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NewsDays of demolish and rebuild ‘long gone’, construction chief tells conference
Chief operating officer John Wilkinson says retaining existing structure is the right thing to do
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NewsBakerBrown retrofit transforms 19th-century cottage into carbon-negative home
Bank Cottage has undergone a transformation to meet 21st-century standards of energy efficiency and comfort
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NewsSheppard Robson submits plans for retrofit scheme close to Edinburgh World Heritage Site
Retrofit of Calton Square office block features a new sandstone façade and biodiverse roof terraces
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OpinionIt’s time to stop kicking the retrofit can down the road – we need urgent action now
Australian bank Macquarie now owns 100% of National Gas, raising questions about the direction and desire of industry to retrofit. The new government must take the lead and industry must get off the fence, says Smith Mordak
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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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OpinionBirmingham’s vision for its future is already looking out of date
The city’s fixation on demolition and failure to embrace retrofit risks repeating the failed planning policies of the past, writes Joe Holyoak
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NewsChipperfield bags planning for new LSE research hub
Scheme seeks to retain structure of existing building on Lincoln’s Inn Fields
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NewsCity of London Corporation approves retrofit first policy
Planners want revamps rather than new builds where “this is the most sustainable and suitable approach for a site”
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FeaturesFixing homes that harm your health
Jonathan Tuckey joins a panel discussion at the Building Centre exploring the link between home and human health, with speakers from Lab4Living Sheffield, Connected Places Catapult and the London School of Architecture
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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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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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OpinionThe transformative power of regenerative retrofitting
We need to move beyond aspiring to be ‘less bad’, towards creating net positive good, writes Tara Gbolade
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OpinionThe Crooked House is gone. It can’t be reinvented
Any attempt to rebuild the Crooked House would merely produce a ‘worthless fake’, writes Joe Holyoak
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NewsAsh Sakula bags planning to convert department store into 125 homes
Retrofit scheme repurposes locally listed building as mixed use scheme with 125 new homes
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NewsJan Kattein completes conversion of former garages into community spaces
Retrofit project seeks to provide space for young entrepreneurs
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OpinionThe dial has moved: the age of automatic demolition and rebuild has come to an end
Attitudes have shifted irrevocably in favour in conservation and retrofit, writes Henrietta Billings
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OpinionIs the M&S decision the start of a new era, or a fig leaf to conceal government backsliding on net zero?
Does Michael Gove’s decision signal a clear change in government policy, or does it just presage more uncertainty, asks Ben Flatman