City Dialogues
Wednesday 23 July 2025
17:00 - 18:30
Join this online NYLON event to hear from London and New York discussing the adaptive re-use of tall buildings.
Net Zero
Thursday 04 September 2025
18:15 - 20:15
As part of the Adaptive London programming, this Test & Learn event showcases a selection of project presentations exploring innovations in adaptive reuse and retrofit across the city.
Net Zero
Wednesday 12 November 2025
09:00 - 13:30
Hear how London’s built environment is addressing the challenges, policies, and opportunities in scaling retrofit for a more resilient city.
Net Zero
19 June 2025
From outdated office to boutique hotel: advancing adaptive reuse in London
Covent Garden’s Hotel Amano was transformed from an outdated office building into a boutique hotel through an adaptive reuse model by a team from Introba, writes David Glossop.
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26 June 2025
Why should we consider adaptive reuse?
Global resource consumption has tripled in the past 50 years and is expected to double in the next 35 years and along with it wider environmental impacts. How long can this continue?
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08 July 2025
Opportunities for Passivhaus retrofit in adaptive reuse projects
With adaptive reuse projects gaining popularity due to the awareness of their benefits, one way these projects can be implemented is through EnerPHit and Passivhaus retrofit standards.
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An extension of Denys Lasdun's Grade II listed building, transforming a 1980s office building into a flexible and generous modern workspace.
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Under Construction
A ‘ruthlessly inclusive’ zero-harm scheme, it is the extension and full refurbishment of the Grade II listed Town Hall, and creation of a new high-quality civic mixed-use development.
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Renewal of a 1950s building to provide Grade A workspace with a key focus on wellbeing, sustainability and user-centric design.
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A complex, heritage-led refurbishment that unifies and extends five buildings in Covent Garden combining flexible ground-floor retail and leisure with sustainably designed office space.
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Occupying a small Conservation Area on the edge of the City the Norton Folgate masterplan responds to the mixed local character bringing vacant buildings back into use and enhancing the public realm.
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We’re revitalising and reconfiguring the Seymour Leisure Centre for a new era, restoring its 1930s art deco features while bringing the building up to modern accessibility and sustainability standards
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A high-quality commercial refurbishment and expansion project in St James’s, London. The site is located in a highly sensitive local heritage context which is largely Grade I or II.
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Restoration the Grade II Listed railway arch frontages on Crucifix Lane, Southwark. Once home to Jacks nightclub, it’s now a vibrant space for F&B and leisure.
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RIAS Award 2024 winning redevelopment of Edwardian school building into a functional, flexible and accessible community space, with discrete interventions to maximise social value.
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Completed in 1937, Camden Town Hall is the administrative and civic hub of the London Borough of Camden. Purcell was appointed as architects and heritage consultants, leading a multidisciplinary team
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Originally built in 1915 for the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Hodge House is a landmark Grade II-listed, eight-storey building on St Mary Street in Cardiff.
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One Millennium Bridge is a deep retrofit of an outdated office building in the Square Mile, and a key component in the wider repositioning of the Thames’ North Bank as a revitalised piece of the city.
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Our proposal for the Devonport House Project will transform a Grade II listed former naval hospital nurses home into a state-of-the-art teaching and community space for the University of Greenwich.
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Our Neighbourhood refurbishment transforms three dated office buildings into an attractive, low carbon community that nurtures wellbeing.
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A 1931 office and 1965 annex converted into luxury condos, adding floors, retail, and a pool. Engineers used innovative methods to ensure stability and adapt the structure for sustainable modern use.
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The architecturally unique, Grade I listed, Cambridge House and adjacent buildings are being transformed into a new hotel.
View project318 Oxford Street, House of Fraser
Under Construction
The iconic, Art Deco, former department store is reimagined and adapted as a mixed-use development with a retro-first approach, retaining as much of the original building as possible.
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Net-zero carbon refurbishment of two floors of a 1920s, neo-Georgian building in the Mayfair conservation area to meet LETI retrofit guidelines and Grosvenor’s bold environmental goals.
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The transformation of Paramount Plaza in Manhattan reimagines monofunctional office towers as dynamic, mixed-use vertical communities, addressing the housing crisis and decline of traditional spaces.
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The Langfield transforms two end-of-life office buildings into a sustainable and contemporary workplace to meet the increasing demand for modern and adaptable prime office in the Victoria area.
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Thirty High (formerly Portland House) is an existing office block in the heart of Victoria.
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Oriente Green Campus has transformed a stalled mall development into a world-class, academic and innovation hub, designed for wellness and future flexibility.
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A former 1980s office remodelled into one of the largest purpose-built pathology laboratories in the UK. Filled with cutting-edge technology, the Hub processes samples for nearly two million patients.
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Pioneering Canary Wharf redevelopment with enhanced ground-level activation and 25% more office space. The refurbishment reduced carbon by 10,200t and achieved BREEAM Outstanding.
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75 London Wall, designed by Orms for Castleforge and Gamuda, aims to foster a new typology within the City of London: a retrofit led Global Headquarters.
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Padel Box is a redevelopment in South Bermondsey that has transformed a historic warehouse into a modern multipurpose sporting venue, designed to bring community together through accessible sport.
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At KOVA KX, Native Land and Ashby Capital are transforming an Edwardian building into 70,000 sqft of lab-enabled workspace to serve research-led businesses in the heart of London’s Knowledge Quarter.
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The Gaslight in Fitzrovia is a mixed-use commercial development that was created within the shell of a handsome Art Deco building. This project set a benchmark for Fitzrovia’s office market.
View projectTileyard North at Rutland Mills
Built
A complex of Grade II listed mill buildings in Wakefield transformed into Tileyard North – a 135,000 sq ft creative industries hub, the UK’s largest outside London.
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A new standard for City retrofits. We have retained the embodied carbon of the existing floors and elevations, and extended them responsibly to give a new HQ building of around 300,000sqft.
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The Goodsyard will deliver up to 500 homes, 1.4 million sq ft of workspace, a 2.6-acre park, restaurants and retail. Bishopsgate Goodsyard has remained largely derelict for fifty years...
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Adaptive London: Reusing Existing Buildings
NLA has launched its latest report ‘Adaptive London: Reusing Existing Buildings’. Accompanying the report is a dedicated...
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