The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Swiss-UK team wins Lausanne retrofit contest
A team of Swiss and UK practices has won a retrofit competition held by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Tag: Retrofit
Carmody Groarke renovates London penthouse with rooftop pavilion
Carmody Groarke has transformed an apartment in a 19th-century Grade II-listed merchant’s house in Covent Garden with the addition of a folded aluminium rooftop pavilion
3XN’s rejigged Euston Tower overhaul approved
3XN and sister company GXN has won planning consent for its revised life sciences-led overhaul of Euston Tower, a vacant 1960-70s skyscraper just off Euston Road in north London
BGY appointed to retrofit Arup-designed Lloyds Bank building in Bristol
Buckley Gray Yeoman (BGY) has been appointed to retrofit a late 1980s Arup-designed, Grade II-listed former Lloyds Bank building in Bristol
Squire & Partners transforms Seifert’s Brutalist icon Space House
Squire & Partners has performed an ambitious retrofit of Seifert’s Grade II-listed tower near Covent Garden, including the addition of a 2,000m2 rooftop extension
AJ office set for hotel retrofit by tp bennett with rooftop extension
Southwark-based practice tp bennett has put forward proposals for retrofitting and extending Harmsworth House — the Art Deco home of the AJ off Fleet Street in the City of London
Gangnam style: Heatherwick wins Seoul convention centre contest
Heatherwick Studio has won a competition to reimagine the late 1970s Coex convention centre in Seoul’s Gangnam district
Janet Courtney Hostel, Lerwick
Shetland Islands Council is recruiting an architect and principal designer to retrofit a former educational hostel in Lerwick [Deadline: 11 April 2025]
Buckley Gray Yeoman gets the OK for 90% retention retrofit in London’s West End
Buckley Gray Yeoman (BGY) has won approval for a proposed office retrofit and extension with 90 per cent of the existing building fabric to be retained
Case study: Challoner House by HUT Architecture
The conversion and extension of a locally listed building in Clerkenwell, London, uses natural and recycled materials to create an office space. Photography by Billy Bolton