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RetroFirst is an AJ campaign to prioritise retrofit over demolition and rebuild. Hundreds of architecture practices, organisations and individuals have declared their support for our campaign

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Introducing RetroFirst: a new AJ campaign championing reuse in the built environment

Amid the escalating climate crisis, Will Hurst introduces the AJ’s campaign to prioritise retrofitting existing buildings over demolition and rebuild

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Vertical building extension method Optoppen launches in the UK
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Environmental campaigners join bid to save Hodder’s Centenary Building
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Exclusive: first Stirling Prize winner set to be demolished
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Why on earth isn’t the government engaging with architects on retrofit?
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Government asks for your views on retrofit versus demolition
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We need a 20-year national retrofit plan, Labour peer tells AJ Retrofit Live
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Want to make your office retrofit future-proof? Here’s how
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AHMM scheme involving five demolitions approved by ‘retrofit-first’ council

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Mistry Swire completes pared-back remodelling of 1930s house

The detached house in Prestbury, Cheshire, now has a renewed façade and has been thermally upgraded and internally remodelled

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SPPARC remodels Victorian grocery warehouse as contemporary workspace

The restoration and rework of Greycoat Stores in Westminster accommodates retail and leisure uses and a restaurant in addition to workspace

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In simplifying office-to-resi conversions, PDR is on the right track
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High Court rejects bid to save Birmingham’s Ringway Centre
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Sergison Bates wins Belgian university contest with radical revamp plan
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M&S Oxford St charrette shows architects’ appetite for adaptive reuse
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AWW’s 28-storey tower on Bristol Debenhams site gets the OK
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Final six make the cut in M&S Oxford Street ideas contest
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M&S Oxford Street ideas contest longlist revealed
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Neave Brown listed estate faces ‘irreversible damage’ from heating upgrade
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Mowat & Company wins approval for all-wood overhaul of timber merchant HQ
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