workplaces = people
The workplace is now the venue for far more than somewhere to spend 8 hours a day, Monday to Friday. It is a place to be creative, to exchange ideas, to form relationships and to share purpose. A place to collaborate, to have virtual meetings but also a place for quiet concentration.
Many people now work flexibly splitting their time between workplace and remote working. Balancing the needs and expectations of people at different stages of their life and career is now driving change.
The case for retrofit
The most sustainable building is the building that already exists. It already holds a significant carbon advantage over new builds. Alteration, adaption, refit and improvement can, in the majority of cases, provide the most sustainable solution, even in the case of heritage buildings.
Retrofit requires different skills from new build and a different approach. Buttress have been successfully repurposing all kinds of existing buildings for decades.
Hilton House shortlisted for AJ Retrofit Award
The awards recognise design excellence that prolongs the life of the built environment.
From our journal
A passion for Passivhaus
Buttress' Alison Haigh a Passivhaus certified consultant, and Leeds studio lead, James Lewis outline the benefits and challenges of designing Passivhaus residential schemes.
Plans submitted for an Innovation Centre in Workington, West Cumbria
Plans have been submitted to Cumberland Council for an Innovation Centre in Workington.
Plans submitted to transform Oldham’s derelict Prudential Building
The plans will create a new business incubation hub for the town.
Gavin Sorby
Gavin is managing director at Buttress with experience in various sectors across the practice, with a specific focus on commercial projects.
Martin Kirkpatrick
Martin is an experienced architect who has successfully delivered projects across a broad range of sectors, most recently specialising in hotels, multi-residential, mixed-use, and masterplanning work.
Shaadi Karimi
Shaadi is a creative architect with exceptional vision matched by commercial experience.
Paul Hobson
Paul is a Senior Architect with experience across the commercial, healthcare and residential sectors.
His design approach is one that is born from a respectful understanding of a building’s unique context and history, balanced with the inherent need for sustainable conservation and regeneration of urban and landscape environments.
