The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Emrys upgrades Grade II-listed Bridge House in Southwark
Emrys Architects has retrofitted Bridge House in Southwark, one of the first buildings erected on the approach to the ‘new’ London Bridge
Tag: Retrofit
MVRDV to turn Hertzberger’s Centraal Beheer office into housing
MVRDV is to transform the landmark Structuralist building Centraal Beheer in the Netherlands into new housing
O’DonnellBrown revamp of Glasgow’s New Olympia House starts on site
Construction has started on O’DonnellBrown's retrofit of Olympia House in Bridgeton, Glasgow, for Clyde Gateway Developments
AJ Climate Champions podcast: ACAN founding member Sara Edmonds on ramping up domestic retrofit
Architect and ACAN campaigner Sara Edmonds on forging collaborative networks for household retrofit
Fletcher Priest wins approval for retrofit of 1980s SOM Broadgate office
Fletcher Priest Architects’ proposals to significantly overhaul a 1988 SOM office overlooking Exchange Square in Broadgate have been given the initial green light
Architect awarded MBE in birthday honours urges scrapping VAT on retrofit
A leading British architect awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list has called for the removal of VAT on building repairs
RetroFirst stories: how Ferguson Mann rescued a crumbling Victorian crane factory
The latest in an AJ series looking at architects who have saved buildings from the bulldozers or given them a new lease of life
New Practice completes retrofit of Glasgow community centre
Through adaptive re-use and internal reorganisation, the revitalised Kinning Park Complex now offers community and creative workspaces across its three storeys
EAC chair Philip Dunne: ‘Government must act to get to net zero Britain’
As the cross-party Commons committee publishes its landmark report on how to build in a climate crisis, Will Hurst catches up with chairman and Conservative MP for Ludlow, Shropshire, Philip Dunne
MPs back RetroFirst approach and demand planning and tax reforms
A report from the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has sharply criticised government inaction on embodied carbon and has echoed all three strands of the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign