Reinvention & Retrofit
As operational energy levels decline, the embodied carbon of our buildings becomes more significant in looking at the lifetime emissions of a building. It makes much less sense to demolish buildings without good reason as it may take decades to compensate for the loss of the embodied carbon involved.
Some of our recent projects, like the David Attenborough Building, have used this whole-life approach to determine their future and explore how far the sustainable re-invention of fabric and services can also reduce carbon in use. The answer is significantly, with huge savings in energy costs being delivered.
There is delight and inspiration too in re-invention: serendipitous matchings of new activities to old spaces of strong character, the juxtaposition of crisply detailed new interventions with historic fabric and the simple joy of careful renewal and restoration.
Our architectural approach - underpinned by a strong sense of materiality and a respect for context - is ideally suited to the sensitive re-use or imaginative extension of old buildings and we have an excellent track record of successful engagement with conservation groups and planners.
- 36-38 Gordon Square University College London
- Alexandra Theatre Bognor Regis
- Bloomsbury Theatre University College London
- Bloomsbury Theatre Foyer and Bloomsbury Café University College London
- BOA Stage & Screen Production Academy BOA Stage & Screen
- Bristol Cathedral Choir School Bristol
- Coldfall Primary School Haringey, London
- Coleridge Primary School Haringey, London
- Education and Simulation Centre Royal College of Surgeons of England, London
- Florey Building Queen's College, University of Oxford
- George Salter Academy West Bromwich
- Georgian Townhouse Retro-fit and Re-use
- Harris Clapham Sixth Form Sixth Form
- Harris Westminster Sixth Form Academy London
- Information Services Building University of Wales, Bangor
- Museum of Zoology University of Cambridge
- School of Management University College London
- The Courtauld Institute of Art University of London
- The David Attenborough Building University of Cambridge
- The Dyson Centre for Engineering Design University of Cambridge
- The London Film School Barbican Project
- The London Film School London City Island
- The Study Preparatory School Wimbledon, London