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CAN wins approval for stone extension to Highgate Arts and Crafts house
CAN has received planning permission to extend and refurbish a north London Arts and Crafts-style house with a quirky stone-brick rotunda
Tag: Retrofit
Feilden Fowles arts centre approved for South Downs National Park
Feilden Fowles has won planning consent for a cultural and educational centre on a former dairy farm in the South Downs National Park
Latest phase of Park Hill revamp shortlisted in RIBA Yorkshire awards
Mikhail Riches’ second phase of the ongoing revamp of Sheffield’s 1960s Park Hill estate has been named on a seven-strong shortlist for this year’s RIBA Yorkshire regional awards
Michael Collins Architects wins planning for Flemish-inspired bungalow retrofit
Up-and-coming studio Michael Collins Architects has won approval to extend and overhaul an existing bungalow on the north Norfolk coastline
ADP retrofits West Midlands office building into music school
A five-storey office building in Sandwell has been completely remodelled internally, providing facilities for 870 students, including a triple-height performance hall within an existing atrium
Nick Hill Architects brings cohesion to house reworked for artist couple
The design of this retrofitted 1930s building in Blackheath, south-east London, deliberately maintains an ambiguity between the existing and the new
Chipperfield and Fosters’ losing Basel bank designs revealed
Shortlisted concepts by David Chipperfield Architects and Foster + Partners to redesign Basel’s Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have gone on display
‘We can’t just keep buildings the way they were’: sustainable renovation at John Gilbert Architects
Among the vital upskilling needed to tackle the climate emergency, building performance evaluation often gets overlooked. Not so at Glasgow-based John Gilbert Architects, where it has become a crucial skill
£35k average home retrofit cost ‘demonstrably inequitable’
A new report has revealed major inequalities in the affordability of retrofitting homes across different regions of England and Wales
White Arkitekter’s circular-economy office fit-out: 80% re-used, £80k cheaper
White Arkitekter’s head of sustainability UK Anna Lisa McSweeney and sustainability specialist Shreya Aneja speak to the AJ about the pros and cons of recycling in a fit-out