The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
TDO Architecture delivers a retrofit in the heart of Dickens land
The courtyard development employs reuse and retrofit alongside new build to realise creative office spaces for the post-Covid era
Retrofit & sustainable
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
[Y/N] Studio expands and improves affordable workspace at Bradbury Works
[Y/N] Studio has repaired and extended a terrace of workspaces in Hackney, wrapping the building in a polycarbonate skin and with deck access circulation in an industrial palette of materials
Sheppey’s beacon of hope: Sheerness Dockyard Church by Hugh Broughton Architects
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
Belgian abundance: Caruso St John’s retrofit of Brussels insurance HQ
Caruso St John and Bovenbouw Architectuur have transformed an insurance HQ into a multi-use building, including a hotel, workspaces and gym
Jonathan Tuckey transforms factory in Norway into hotel and cultural hub
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
Scapolan Burney completes Milton Keynes work-to-resi conversion
A 1980s city-centre Modernist building has been stripped back with the upper floors, previously offices, transformed into 200 flats
INCH and Sheppard Robson convert disused gas purifier shed to workspace
INCH Architecture + Design and Sheppard Robson have preserved and reworked a prominent disused Victorian industrial structure in Glasgow
Hoskins’ Scottish National Gallery revamp finally opens
Hoskins’ long-awaited transformation of the Scottish Galleries at the National in Edinburgh opened to the public last Saturday (30 September 2023)
OGU and MMAS complete adaptive reuse of former Belfast bank
Two Belfast practices have completed the meanwhile adaptation of an 1869 branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland into a ‘sheltered public space’
Coffey completes housing, gallery and artists’ studios in Bermondsey
Coffey Architects has completed 400 mixed-tenure homes plus a gallery and studios in a series of new and retrofitted buildings in south London