Architects and façade specialists from Foster + Partners, Propak Architectural, Farrells and Schüco discuss how they collaborated to repurpose two of London’s landmark buildings – The Whiteley and Powerhouse – at an event exploring the value of reuse and restoration.
Studio DERA transforms a disused swimming pool into a light-filled, sustainable hub for learning and wellbeing.
Cagni Williams Associates has reworked an Edwardian terraced house in south London, replacing the rear conservatory with a Corten steel-and-glass extension, and delivering a low-energy retrofit with carefully crafted spaces.
Set within a reworked 1950s grain warehouse in eastern Czech Republic, Jakub Janošík’s new headquarters and showroom for his family’s window and door company forms a strong connection with the surrounding Carpathian landscape.
Studio Weave's recent conversion of a mid-20th Century barn into a family home near Cowes on the Isle of Wight is a model for how rural buildings can be reimagined without erasure.
Eero Saarinen’s Grade II-listed former US Embassy building in Grosvenor Square, London, has been reimagined as a hotel by David Chipperfield Architects with interiors by Joseph Dirand.
Wendover Studio’s conversion of the former St John’s Wood police station transforms the Victorian civic building into nine boutique rental apartments arranged around a courtyard.
DLA Architecture’s mass timber rooftop extension and deep retrofit of three mews buildings elevates a historic Mayfair street into a new, carbon-conscious, design-led workspace.
Barr Gazetas breathes new life into a 1990s office block in Farringdon with a sustainable, people-focused retrofit for Great Portland Estates that prioritises occupancy wellbeing and workspace flexibility.
Charlie Luxton and VELUX rethink the rural retrofit at Lamorna House in the Cotswolds.
HÛT Architecture has sympathetically transformed a 1930s army drill hall into co-working offices, a café, and apartments in the heart of London's Mile End.
Tuckey Design Studio has reworked the interiors of Acland Burghley School in north London, upgrading learning spaces while uncovering and celebrating the brutalist architecture of the iconic Grade II-listed building.
