Category: Retrofit

The Hyde Park Picture House is a unique Category-II listed independent Cinema in Leeds – known for being the very last gas-lit cinema in the UK. The brief set out to make the cinema accessible to all, and to secure its future both in physical fabric and financial resilience. The venue is cherished by locals and visitors alike for its cosiness and charm, and retaining this character was crucial to the project. The redevelopment consisted of 3 key aspects; comprehensive […]

Moxon Architects has transformed a collection of 19th-century agricultural buildings, creating a new guesthouse, glasshouse and artist’s studio for a private artist/architect client on a hillside farm settlement in the Cairngorms National Park, Aberdeenshire with impressive wide-ranging views over the River Dee and Lochnagar. Following a decade-long undertaking, the newly converted buildings have been restored and repurposed in keeping with the restoration of the owners’ main farmhouse residence. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary construction methods each of the […]

For client Clyde Gateway, Sheppard Robson and INCH Architecture + Design have collaborated to breathe new life into a disused gas purifier shed, a structure from the area’s Victorian industrial past that has been mostly unused for around 65 years. The refurbished shed now houses 30,000ft2 of workplace that benefits from the character of the existing structure, preserving one of only five historic buildings to remain in the area. The 94m-long, double-barreled structure has been divided into five workspaces, retaining […]

The Engine Yard in northeast Edinburgh consists of two brickwork buildings: the Big Shed and the Wee Shed; they are Category B-listed as the “Shrubhill Tramway Workshops”. These large buildings were used to house machinery and vehicles and have been adjusted to meet the technological needs of each era between their construction in the 1890s until their closure in the 1990s. Neglect and vandalism followed and, by 2005, the buildings were in HES Buildings At Risk Register. The Engine Yard […]

The project brief was not a dry list of deliverables. It was a vision:The client wished to transform this historic building into one of the finest multi-functional venues in the West of Scotland. The project was to be a civic hub serving the people of Paisley, centred on its Main Hall. Other entirely new functions desired included a Dance Studio, Interval Bar / Café, Wedding Reception, Banqueting, Digital Screening Room and Commercial Catering. By combining a wide variety of local […]

Izat Arundell have sensitively transformed a Category A listed mews building in Edinburgh’s New Town into a contemporary two-bedroom home. The brief was to retain the essence of the historic building, introduce a new breathable insulated construction, avoid the use of plastic and reuse materials wherever possible. The design took two years to finalise and another two years to complete on-site: a testament to the care and quality the team wanted to deliver – and the patience of the client. […]