The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Sergison Bates wins Belgian university contest with radical revamp plan
Sergison Bates has won a competition for a £19.2 million project to convert two separate buildings into a new single business hub for Belgian university
RetroFirst
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
M&S Oxford St charrette shows architects’ appetite for adaptive reuse
Six teams of architects and students have pitched their concepts for the reuse of M&S Oxford Street at a design charrette, showing how the 1929 building could be repurposed to avert CO2 emissions and help revitalise London’s retail heart
AWW’s 28-storey tower on Bristol Debenhams site gets the OK
Bristol’s former Debenhams store is set for demolition after a proposed 28-storey tower designed by AWW was approved
Final six make the cut in M&S Oxford Street ideas contest
Judges for the AJ and SAVE Britain’s Heritage architecture competition have selected the final six teams who will work up their ideas for the Marks & Spencer building on London’s Oxford Street
M&S Oxford Street ideas contest longlist revealed
The AJ and SAVE Britain’s Heritage can reveal the longlist in their ideas competition to find possible new leases of life for the Marks & Spencer building on London’s Oxford Street
Neave Brown listed estate faces ‘irreversible damage’ from heating upgrade
Architectural conservationists have joined the outcry over Camden Council’s plans to fit new heating systems in the celebrated Alexandra Road estate
Mowat & Company wins approval for all-wood overhaul of timber merchant HQ
Mowat & Company has been granted planning permission to retrofit the headquarters of a family-run timber merchant in the East Midlands
Westminster’s retrofit-first plan: ‘The architecture profession is on the bus’
The AJ quizzes Westminster City Council cabinet member Geoff Barraclough on the authority’s nascent retrofit-first policy
RetroFirst Stories: OEB and Arrant Land on turning a church hall into homes
The latest in an AJ series looking at architects who have saved buildings from demolition or given them a new lease of life
Whatever the project, the future must include the past
Marking the launch of a new ideas competition for M&S Oxford Street, zero-carbon expert Simon Sturgis calls for a more imaginative approach to changes to existing and even listed buildings