AJ 12.09.19: RetroFirst

AJ 12.09.19: RetroFirstIn this retrofit themed issue we launch our new RetroFirst campaign championing reuse in the built environment. We also announce the winners of the AJ Retrofit Awards 2019 covering 18 different categories; as well as building studies of two retrofit projects: Orms conversion of council offices into a hotel in Camden, north London; and Flower Michelin Architects Shingle House renovation and extension of a seaside home on Scotlands west coast. PLUS We

Ibstock Place School Refectory by Maccreanor Lavington and Turner Works' Dutch Barn

we look at the barriers the heritage sector faces to reusing buildings

a Shoreditch pop up by Checa Romero

PLUS The architects who quit the profession to become full-time climate-change activists

we reveal the winners of a contest to design affordable housing in the rural North

and The Weston at Yorkshire Sculpture Park by Feilden Fowles

Special bumper issue + FREE colouring book

listing the largest practices in the UK with in depth profiles of the top 10

Now in its 25th year

Feilden Fowles wins its biggest project to date – an entrance hall for York’s National Railway Museum

Presenting the top 100 architectural practices of 2020

and a partially subterranean north London house by Takero Shimazaki Architects