Amr Assaad, director at Buckley Gray Yeoman, exudes enthusiasm as he guides me through the practice’s latest project. It is an extensive refurb and expansion of a former gin distillery on Goswell Road in London’s Clerkenwell.

Although the key drivers were fundamentally commercial, BGY has not approached this project as some run-of-the-mill retrofit. Instead, there is a playful mix of revealed history and urban intervention, plus a beautifully understated rooftop timber extension.