‘Hidden gem’ unspoilt cottage for sale, ‘with planning permission to demolish and create a new, two-storey home’. This seems a sad waste of a sweet old cottage. If you want a new house maybe buy or build a new house without demolishing a sweet old cottage! 🏡 #retrofirst
Discover behind the scenes of bespoke manufacture. Join us in St Albans for a guided, Royal Institute of British Architects approved, factory tour 👉 ow.ly/JSlS50RhUq6
#RIBACPD #FactoryTour #BespokeManufacture #SympatheticDesign #RetroFirst @thenbs Royal Institute of British Architects_CPD NBS
#RetroFirst stories: How three architects and a dog revived a Birmingham bank building bit.ly/3UBCMCN
FULL TIME RETRO GAMER...NEW GAMES ARE TRASH | NBA LIVE 04 Hidden Gem better than Live 03? Draft youtu.be/8qsgX1RGRzY #retrogames #retrowave #RETROGAMING #Retrospectiva2022 #RetroFirst #RetrospectivaBBB #nbalive19 #easports #NBA2K23 #NFLPlayoffs #nfl #nbalive2004 #nbalive2003
The former South Glamorgan County Hall makes it on to C20 Society #TheRiskList 2023. Designed by JCR Bethell, it was completed in 1987 and deserves a far more productive future than demolition to make way for the Cardiff Arena. #RetroFirst
We haven’t saved her. She’s being destroyed right now. Not even salvaging the bricks by the look of it. Pointless destruction of a good building. #retrofirst
No more bulldozing perfectly good buildings Architects’ Journal
No to Demolition
#Retrofirst zero carbon house
Just Save Smallbrook
Bham City Council 🙏🏻
It was great to be back at the #OldHouseProject this week.
Essential #SettingOut of new garden and foundation features.
The momentum is building for a very exciting SPAB #WorkingParty in a few weeks!
#Heritage #SaveOldBuildings #RetroFirst #RepairNotRestore
Another brilliant year of what we do best... preserving our architectural heritage and protecting the planet. Some of our favourite 2023 project highlights 👇
#Selectaglaze #PrecisionBespokeSecondaryGlazing #RetroFirst
Shameless self promotion incoming...
Thrilled to be shortlisted for the The Retrofit Academy CIC awards next week. I'll be travelling down to the tropics of London for Futurebuild / JohnGilbertArchitect #retrofit #retrofirst
Our retrofit of a brass instrument factory in central London to create housing. Architects’ Journal #retrofirst #riba
.SAVEBritainsHeritage annual lecture this evening “Architecture and climate crisis: how the past can save the future”. The future of development is #retrofirst
Great to see progress being made on Grain House, located on London's busy Drury Lane. Site works are progressing well and the scaffolding has now been struck, revealing the building's retrofitted exterior.
#regeneration #retrofirst #retrofit #engineeringabettersociety
A charred timber extension to this beautiful, Cornish cottage adds a new and airy kitchen and dining room. Whilst also freeing up valuable space to remodel the cottage into a modest family home.
#retrofirst
#dontmoveimprove
#cornishextension
#ribaclimatechallenge2030
How can higher education institutions #decarbonise their campuses by retrofitting heritage buildings? Take a look at our case study of UCL's Grade II* listed Institute of Education
🔗 bit.ly/3IKsryr
#highereducation #retrofirst #heritage #lowcarbon UCL Penoyre & Prasad
Congratulations to all involved in this campaign, a great outcome! The planning committee for Smallbrook Ringway Centre in Birmingham is likely mid-August - any lessons learned here would be welcome in support of our ongoing campaign for #retrofirst Architects’ Journal
Of all the projects I worked on at Atelier Ten, I was most proud to lead the sustainability strategy on the #oldgramophoneworks project. Retaining 655 tonnes CO2 in concrete and sequestering a further 1,000 tonnes CO2 in the timber addition #retrofirst
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