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🏛️ Heritage bodies warned that piecemeal demolition erodes Rosemary Stjernstedt’s Central Hill legacy. A retrofit-first approach would have preserved both carbon and character. #RetrofitFirst
As part of our #RetrofitFirst approach, we repurposed an old, vacant building into our new, energy efficient head office, equipped with EV charging, smart heating/cooling monitoring systems and recycling facility to support the #CircularEconomy.
#globalrecyclingday2025
A-listed Sentinel Works in #Polmadie ~ Early ferro-concrete pattern store, built on the #Hennebique system 1903-1904 ~ prime example of innovative #industrialheritage crying out for ♻️ #adaptiveresuse #retrofirst #retrofitfirst 😨💔 https://t.co/LZRj13b2t2
The A-Listed former Sentinel Works on Jessie Street in Glasgow. Designed by Brand and Lithgrow, this was one of the first fully reinforced concrete buildings and the oldest to survive in the UK.
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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #buildingsatrisk #abandonedglasgow
A significant blow against the principle of #RetrofitFirst as GOVUK green lights the demolition and rebuild of the Oxford Street M&S.
🚨BREAKING NEWS// Government green lights M&S Oxford Street demolition proposals. SAVE early comment:
🗣️What a missed opportunity! The government has chosen the easy option – business as usual - when it had a real chance to show leadership and ambition on this urgent issue.
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🏡 So pleased @w9maidavale brought our leading new retrofit-first policy to Full Council this week.
A key manifesto pledge, which has seen lots of hard work & consultation with industry, our #RetrofitFirst tests will help us get truly sustainable developments in Westminster.
The ongoing cull of sometimes listed and often locally significant, definitely reusable, buildings is a problem nationwide, but it seems to be a particular issue in Glasgow.
#RetrofitFirst
A developer wants to demolish the B-listed neo-classical Hillhead Baptist Church, built in 1883 by Thomas L. Watson, and replace it with a clunky block of flats.
The deadline to object is midnight on Friday.
You can use my objection letter as a template👇🏻https://t.co/H7rP3f3U50
Lots on fuel poverty on @BBCr4today.
Across the UK we define it differently which is not helpful, & it’s not just about cost, it has much wider impacts on health & wellbeing.
Fuel poverty is on the rise again.
#RetrofitFirst
Bristol Stats. 👇
#r4today
https://t.co/rK2itLx6j8
Probably not perfect (what is?), but better than demolition and rebuild.
Read in conjunction with the new paper about archaeology and 20th century working class architecture by @PippaPostgate
#RetrofitFirst
NEWS // After standing empty for 25 years, the High Point building in Bradford has been rehabilitated by an £11 million residential conversion scheme. Local developer Radii led the project, with a grant from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
Designed by John Brunton Partnership (1972) as HQ for the Huddersfield & Bradford Building Society, C20 has argued High Point's significance as part of a trilogy of northern building society headquarters, all in variants of high-brutalism:
- Halifax Building Society HQ (BDP, 1968-74), Grade II listed 2013
- Bradford & Bingley Building Society HQ (JBP, 1972-74), demolished 2015
➡️https://t.co/GqMjwJXKNE
Govanhill Baths looking fine in the sunshine today. With the exterior refurbishment complete, only the internal restoration remains to be completed now before it can be reopened as a wellbeing centre & hub for the community... #retrofitfirst #retrofirst 💚 https://t.co/cYmDq0aoFz
@MayorofLondon @ACORNunion @emptyhomes @SHAC_Action @ActionShac @HousingActionSL @35percent_EAN @PaulWatt1232 @DCHcampaign @NunheadTRA @EstateWatch_LDN @DemolitionsLdn @RentersLondon @RentersReformCo @LDNRentersUnion @ACAPeckham @CatfordStruggle @homes4alluk @AltonAction #FillEmptyHomes
#RefurbishDontDemolish
#RentControlsNow
#HomesforPeopleNotProfit
#RetrofitFirst
Ask your politicians if they'd end Right To Buy, end No Fault Evictions, support Rent Controls, build genuine new council housing, refurbish & retrofit our estates. If not, why not?
#TrainingTuesday
Moisture & #EnerPHit: #GoodPracticeGuide
https://t.co/RHYTQ2qscE
#FreeDownload #AlwaysLearning #BetterBuildings #TuesdayThoughts #BuildingPerformance #AlwaysLearning #ClimateAction #retrofit #RetrofitFirst
Scores of London skyscrapers are in the pipeline - what happened to #RetrofitFirst ?#Sustainability https://t.co/5JAJLOpSIf
FULL DEMOLITION. What a gut punch. My favorite building getting off the train at 125th.
@SaveStonehenge @archaeologyuk Returning briefly to eX Twitter to endorse this comment.
Could, should, can, the archaeology sector endorse policies of #RetrofitFirst and #NetZero or better?
Potentially Archaeologists have a lot of influence here if they & especially their leaders, are brave enough to use it.
@BarbicanQuarter London has the skills + talent to #RetrofitFirst.
so it's shameful @cityoflondon is sending out the wrong message + wasting actual material by pressing forward with the demolition of Bastion House.
If only @LibDems were so interested in retrofitting
It’s greener and cheaper
And quicker then demolishing a whole estate to rebuild it
But then they’d rather pander to big developers rather than helping residents
#RetrofitFirst
Council estates across Lambeth breath a sigh of relief @LambethLabour join the #RetroFirst revolution 🤞 hopefully not a window dressing exercise for the comrades in Liverpool @SaveCressingham @savecentralhill 🤞
wise words of caution from @BarnabasCalder in @ArchitectsJrnal letters' page (21-09-2023). beyond the headlines, government's response to the RAAC issue needs to be informed + proportionate.
(unlikely, I know.)
#Retrofit
#RetrofitFirst
@C20Society
@educationgovuk
@RIBA
Birmingham City Council planners greenlight the demolition of the modernist Smallbrook Ringway Centre instead of seeking #RetrofitFirst.
⚠️BREAKING NEWS // Birmingham City Council's planning committee have just approved plans for the demolition of Smallbrook Ringway Centre.
Another devastating assault on the city's post-war heritage and a failure of imagination to not renew and repurpose this landmark building.
Breath-taking scenes as @CaddickConst remove the Mall roof to reveal Stretford's high street for the first time in over 50 years! Exciting future now lies tantalisingly close
#retrofitfirst #lovestretford #futurehighstreet @FCBStudios @Bruntwood_UK @TraffordCouncil
@DemolitionsLdn @wminsterlabour @RyanJudeGreen @w9maidavale @WHurst1 This is a @CityWestminster planning officer recommendation and hasn’t been approved yet. Nothing to do with @cityoflondon tho. @WestminsterCLP PPC @RNBlake chaired a well attended public debate on #RetrofitFirst only this week. Perhaps find a more deserving target?
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