All Building Design articles in BD Mag - Refurbishment - Nov 09
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Features
Simon Jenkins:putting life in great buildings
Simon Jenkins, as chairman of the National Trust, wants visitors to its buildings to see life as it was when the houses were in use
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Features
Q&A with 6a Architects on domestic scale refurbishments
Directors of 6a Architects, Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson, explain how their sensitive approach to domestic-scale refurbishments has become more aggressive at the much larger Offley works
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A roundup of the latest refurbishment projects
Pollard Thomas Edwards’ powder roomPollard Thomas Edwards has restored a set of three early 20th century industrial buildings on the site of the old gunpowder works at Waltham Abbey Mills. The project, which completed in July this year, creates office space for client and contractor Hill Partnerships. Entrance vestibule soffit ...
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Features
Preservation not reconstruction
Julian Harrap’s traditional restoration of a listed timber-framed building on St Aldates, Oxford, is in stark contrast to the contemporary expression of Jamie Fobert’s proposed dwellings to the rear — and yet to both architects it represents a continuation of approach
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Building Study
Tony Fretton shows the art of merger
Tony Fretton’s bringing together of two buildings into a home and studio was just the beginning of a work in progress for artist Brad Lochore
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Inskip & Jenkins puts its seal on Castle Drogo
Completed in 1930 as the last castle in England, Castle Drogo was sadly always pregnable to the Dartmoor rain. Now Inskip & Jenkins’ restoration work is turning Lutyens’ fantastical creation into a weatherproof fortress for the first time
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RIBA Bookshops’ pick of the best books on refurbishment
Stuart Finnie, director of NorthSeven Architects reviews three books on refurbishment covering everything from planning through to transformation