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Great Things Lie Ahead, 2020, Holborn House 6a architects x Caragh Thuring
Architecture

RIBA announces Reinvention Award shortlist

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced the shortlist for the first Reinvention Award, celebrating the creative reuse of buildings to improve their environmental,social, or economic sustainability. The shortlist includes projects by 6a architects x Caragh Touring, van Heyningen and Haward Architects, Wright & Wright Architects, and Associated Architects with Rodney Melville and Partners.

Photo of refurbishment and extension of a community gym in Central London to provide a more accessible community building that facilitates a wider range of activities, ‘Great Things Lie Ahead’, by 6a architects x Caragh Touring. © Johan Dehlin. RIBA

Museum of the Home Wright & Wright Architects
Renovation and extension of the Museum of the Home, Hackney, informed by the history of its Grade I-listed alms house buildings and public gardens, increasing the museum’s public reach and creating one of the largest green spaces in the area, by Wright & Wright Architects. © Hufton + Crow
University of Wolverhampton School of Architecture and the Built Environment by Associated Architects with Rodney Melville and Partners
The dilapidated Mitchells & Butlers Brewery in Wolverhampton is is transformed into an education facility with the design reflecting the site’s rich industrial heritage (University of Wolverhampton School of Architecture and the Built Environment), by Associated Architects with Rodney Melville and Partners. © Hufton + Crow
Houlton School scheme in Warwickshire by van Heyningen and Haward Architects
The Houlton School scheme in Warwickshire, reimagines the Grade II-listed Rugby Radio Station transmitter building and provides three new school blocks arranged around a central courtyard, by van Heyningen and Haward Architects. © James Brittain