All Retrofit articles
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News
In pictures: Former Michigan Central Station reopens its doors as research and technology hub
Historic train station to house tech facility
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Opinion
Birmingham’s vision for its future is already looking out of date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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News
Chipperfield bags planning for new LSE research hub
Scheme seeks to retain structure of existing building on Lincoln’s Inn Fields
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City 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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Features
Fixing 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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News
In 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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Opinion
The 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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Opinion
The 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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News
Ash 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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News
Jan Kattein completes conversion of former garages into community spaces
Retrofit project seeks to provide space for young entrepreneurs
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Opinion
The 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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Opinion
Is 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
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Opinion
Can Birmingham learn from past mistakes by keeping more of its old buildings?
Two separate campaigns to save Birmingham buildings tell the story of how conservation and attitudes to sustainability have evolved in the city, writes Joe Holyoak
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News
Ritchie Studio completes decade-long project to transform Maltese brewery site
The project adopts a retrofit approach that incorporates existing structures while adding new floorspace and landscaping
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News
Make 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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Features
URBED retrofit team: a guide to social housing decarbonisation
URBED’s retrofit team share their experience and advice on how to approach the retrofit of social housing
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Opinion
Where’s the retrofit army for this ‘national war effort’?
The case for a skilled workforce to adapt historic buildings is there and we have no time to waste, says Grosvenor’s Tor Burrows
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Opinion
The M&S Oxford Street inquiry was a clash of world views
We must stop trying to solve our 21st century problems with 20th century thinking, writes Simon Sturgis
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Opinion
Retrofit and conserving our architectural heritage can go hand in hand
Efforts to retrofit older homes can run into conservation concerns, writes Joe Holyoak