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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

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Introducing RetroFirst: a new AJ campaign championing reuse in the built environment

Amid the escalating climate crisis, Will Hurst introduces the AJ’s campaign to prioritise retrofitting existing buildings over demolition and rebuild

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How Westminster City Council plans to put retrofit first
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Why is Keir Starmer ignoring the concrete and steel elephant in the room?
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A call to arms: mass timber extensions can help pay for a retrofit revolution
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Localism is key to saving high streets, AJ100 lunch hears
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Anti-demolition amendment to PDR planned
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Gove’s M&S Oxford Street decision could be great for cities
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New RIBA president Muyiwa Oki to ‘put pressure’ on government on retrofit
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M&S launches High Court appeal against Gove’s Oxford Street refusal

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RetroFirst Stories

Retrofit & sustainable buildings

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INCH and Sheppard Robson convert disused gas purifier shed to workspace

INCH Architecture + Design and Sheppard Robson have preserved and reworked a prominent disused Victorian industrial structure in Glasgow

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Hoskins’ Scottish National Gallery revamp finally opens

Hoskins’ long-awaited transformation of the Scottish Galleries at the National in Edinburgh opened to the public last Saturday (30 September 2023)

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Architecture needs a ‘rinse and repeat’ approach
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Is the M&S Oxford St demolition refusal a climate crisis turning point?
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Campaigners make final plea to save Portsmouth News Centre
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Piercy & Company gets planning consent to demolish former AJ office
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What Anders Lendager can teach Michael Gove about the circular economy
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Michael Gove has been bold over M&S Oxford Street. But it’s not enough
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BREAKING: Gove rejects M&S Oxford Street demolition
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M&S Oxford St is about embodied memory as well as embodied carbon
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Barnstaple wayfinding, Devon
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Stallan-Brand submits plans to overhaul mould-riddled Edinburgh housing
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Studio Egret West wins approval for 45-storey scheme on site of Manchester tax office
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Retrofit-first approach to be debated at Barbican summit
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