Barr Gazetas completes ‘net zero’ office in Chelsea, reusing 24 tonnes of steel
The architect has transformed Holbein Gardens, a 1980s office building near Sloane Square, for client Grosvenor, reusing steel from nearby demolition sites
By Fran Williams. Photography by Phillip Vile 5 September 2023 546 Views
The architect has transformed Holbein Gardens, a 1980s office building near Sloane Square, for client Grosvenor, reusing steel from nearby demolition sites
By Anna Highfield 5 September 2023 187 Views
Rochdale Council has given planning permission for the retrofit of a Grade II* listed former cotton mill on green belt land
By Gino Spocchia 1 September 2023 4,027 Views
Muyiwa Oki will ‘put pressure’ on government to deliver a national retrofit strategy as RIBA president, the institution’s new boss said today (1 September)
By Gino Spocchia 31 August 2023 18,345 Views
Environmental campaigners have condemned Michael Laird Architects’ proposals to demolish two landmark buildings in Glasgow
By Anna Highfield 31 August 2023 826 Views
Worcester City Council is seeking new ideas for two of the city’s Grade II-listed buildings, after Burrell Foley Fischer’s (BFF) plans to turn them into a 500-seat theatre were scrapped
By Anna Highfield 29 August 2023 941 Views
A group of protestors have broken into and occupied a row of empty Ministry of Justice-owned houses in London, calling for them to be converted into council housing
By Gino Spocchia 21 August 2023 2,396 Views
Heritage campaigners and academics have called for the News Centre, an iconic 1960s modernist building in Portsmouth, to be saved from demolition – although it may already be too late
By Fran Williams. Photography by Daniel Hopkinson 21 August 2023 4,441 Views
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has adapted the Grade I-listed Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings into a £28 million social enterprise hub for Historic England after first being engaged on the project nearly 20 years ago
By Gino Spocchia 17 August 2023 6,091 Views
A ULEZ-style charge on buildings could rapidly bring down levels of nitrogen dioxide (NOx) in London and other UK cities, built environment professionals say
By Anna Highfield 11 August 2023 1,652 Views
Glancy Nicholls Architects has unveiled plans to transform two Grade II-listed buildings in Derbyshire, including a burnt-out former Great Northern Railway (GNR) warehouse