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How green is a good retrofit?
The kind of detailed, three-dimensional thinking architects excel at needs to be applied at scale if we are ever to get out of the climate mess we are in, says Hattie Hartman
Tag: Retrofit
AJ Retrofit Awards: Khan and Williams discuss Museum of London designs
Asif Khan and Paul Williams last week revealed more details about their competition-winning designs for Smithfield Market at the AJ Retrofit Awards
Morrow + Lorraine brings a touch of Miami to Whitechapel
Sickly sweet colours inspired by Art Deco Miami have brought light into this co-working space in Whitechapel, says Laura Mark
How Prewett Bizley Architects balanced heritage and building performance
Prewett Bizley Architects’ Bloomsbury House had ambitious aspirations to be a Passivhaus retrofit, says Yogini Patel
Parliament’s retrofit should look to the future, not dwell on the past
The multibillion pound refurbishment of the Palace of Westminster is an opportunity to anticipate and enable major future change, writes Paul Finch
Revealed: 2016 AJ Retrofit Award winners in full
Architects including WilkinsonEyre, AHMM, Hopkins and Dow Jones have triumphed in this year’s AJ Retrofit Awards
Aedas Arts Team’s ‘endearingly dotty’ transformation of the Tara Theatre
Robert Bevan explores the cultural fusion of Aedas Arts Team’s retrofit of the Tara Theatre
Buckley Gray Yeoman completes London homelessness centre
Buckley Gray Yeoman has completed this refurbishment of a homeless centre in Victoria, South London
Full list of AJ Retrofit Awards shortlist announced
We can now reveal the full shortlist for the ’retrofit Oscars’, including schemes by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Coffey Architects, Walters & Cohen and Hawkins\Brown