Our London studio at 75 Wallis Road has won the trophy for ‘Adaptive Reuse into Office’ at this year’s AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards. Judges praised the project as a ‘charming’ transformation of a former Victorian warehouse in Hackney Wick, providing ‘moments of joy’ and achieving ‘something beyond a mere building.’
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Our design preserved the building’s historic features while creating a seamless and accessible workspace with mezzanine floors, double-height spaces, and a dedicated ‘lunchHTAbles’ area with an open-plan kitchen. The project retains 150 years of embodied carbon and maximises renewable energy with rooftop PV panels and air-source heat pumps, ensuring a low-energy, low-carbon workspace for the future.
One judge noted, ‘It felt joyful because their values of community as a practice really flow into the space,’ while another added, ‘It is wonderful to see an architectural practice take a lovely building like this and make it in every way better.’