Retrofit & refurb

It’s become probably the biggest question in construction: what can we keep and reuse? Rightly so — creating new buildings is carbon intensive. At the same time, doing a bad job of reviving old ones can be just as damaging to the environment. As a B Corp with ambitious ESG targets we’re drawn towards these complex questions.

There’s a long tradition at Stanhope of breathing new life into old buildings on just about every imaginable scale. One of the biggest and most well-known is our reboot of HM Treasury, which involved sensitively lightening and brightening the Edwardian civil service office and adding a public museum. More recent is our Woolgate renovation, a new all-electric workplace in EC2 in which we managed to retain 98% of the existing structure. The list goes on, and keeps growing.

From deep cuts to smaller internal acrobatics, Stanhope’s approach to retrofit and refurb is to always push a place to become the absolute best version of itself, whatever its apparent limitations. It takes vision and decades of experience in the grand swoops and also the minutiae. Expect to see lots more at Victoria Street, 70 Gracechurch St and other upcoming Stanhope places.