Refurbishment – Page 4
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CEIP 215 school, Girona, Spain by H Arquitectes
This refurbishment of a 1980s school in the small Catalonian village of Vidreres prioritises durable, low-cost construction while instilling a greater sense of space that values daylighting and a stronger relationship with the outdoors
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London Business School by Sheppard Robson
Sheppard Robson’s partial conversion of the Westminster Register Office complex includes a glazed link building for the entrance
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Institution of Structural Engineering by Hugh Broughton Architects
Hugh Broughton and Expedition Engineering have turned an awkwardly shaped existing office building in Clerkenwell into a showcase of structural innovation
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Nuno Graca Moura Rural House Refurbishment, Portugal
Turning former farm buildings into a hotel manages to retain their original identity, says Hugh Strange
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Logements Sociaux Experimenteaux, Paris
Hugh Strange reviews Babled Nouvet Reynaud Architectes’ design for an energy-efficient apartment block that’s leading the way to low emissions in the French capital
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Townhouse by Brendan Woods and Andrew Houlton
The reworking of an 1840 house in Greenwich has radically reconfigured the building’s relationship with both its basement and garden, while while adding a new layer of sophistication
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Victorian terraced house renovation in Dublin by Donal Colfer Architects
Architect updates Victorian house with concrete mullions, walnut fittings and polished plaster
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Royal Academy Keeper’s House by Long & Kentish Architects
Rethinking circulation gives the RA’s historic facilities a new openness
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Alex Monroe Studio by DSDHA
Despite planners’ initial objections, DSDHA’s complex zinc facade for a jeweller’s studio meshes comfortably with the urban patchwork of its London neighbours
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Great Northern Hotel refurbishment by Dexter Moren and Archer Humphryes
Lewis Cubitt’s Great Northern Hotel has been rescued from the shadow of St Pancras thanks to a flamboyant refurbishment
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Le Lignon apartment complex by Jean-Paul Jaccaud Architectes
The architect is improving the thermal performance of a large development outside Geneva
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Royal Society of Arts refurbishment by Matthew Lloyd Architects
Matthew Lloyd Architects has remodelled the Adam brothers’ Great Room for modern use
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House extension in Mortsel, Belgium, by Bovenbouw Architectuur
The architect has built a mirror image of an existing house on this project near Antwerp
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House in Cadaques, Spain
Sergison Bates Architects has created, alongside local architect Liebman Villavecchia, a house nestled within the intimate streets of Cadaqués, Spain
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Waltham Forest College by Richard Hopkinson Architects and Platform 5 Architects
Richard Hopkinson and Platform 5 Architects have completed a £3 million refurbishment of Waltham Forest College, breathing new life into an existing 1930s building to create new formal and informal education and meeting areas.
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Victory House, London by Ben Adams Architects
Ben Adams Architects has transformed an anonymous office building at the northern end of Tottenham Court Road with a series of subtle interventions.
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Linlithgow Burgh Halls in West Lothian, Scotland, by Malcolm Fraser Architects
Architect completes refurbishment and extension of community halls in West Lothian
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Watergate Farm, North Oxfordshire by James Gorst Architects
James Gorst Architects has completed the first phase of a project set around a courtyard on a farm in north Oxfordshire.
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Looking forward to a retrofit future
Retrofitting meets the challenge of improving energy efficiency in existing stock, as Penoyre & Prasad’s refurb of a 1990s house in London shows
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Worth Abbey Church by Heatherwick Studio
New furniture and cleaned-up concrete enhances Francis Pollen’s original design