The Canal Building Wins AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2024
Winner : Canal Building AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2024
The AJ’s awards demonstrate the strength of the industry to advocate for change and to prioritise sensitive adaptions and minimal interventions over demolition and new build. The AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards celebrate architectural expertise and ingenuity in the physical and environmental adaptation and upgrade of buildings, and the reuse of building materials and structure in response to the climate emergency and changing requirements of use. Completed in 2000, Transforming an abandoned 1930s Art Deco warehouse as a catalyst of Regent’s Canal regeneration – the project was praised by judges for its minimalist and ‘lightest-touch as possible’ approach which resulted in a ‘loose-fit’ building providing maximum community benefits. Held together a compelling façade sympathetic to the building’s 1930s origins, the scale mix of commercial, live work and apartment spaces was additionally recognised by the jury for complimenting the ‘post-Covid creative model that is here to stay.
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