Working collaboratively with PearsonLloyd we have transformed a series of dilapidated warehouse buildings in Hackney into a new home for their practice, housing workshops, studios, meeting and event spaces. We provided both architectural and construction services for this project, ensuring design quality was carried out through to the end, which can be tricky in complex retrofit schemes like this. The retrofit approach was important to the clients and ourselves for two main reasons. Firstly it is the environmentally sound option, not to waste the embodied energy in the existing fabric and start from scratch. Secondly, it would create a much richer, crafted interior atmosphere, retaining all the wonderful character in the materials and adding our own palette to work in harmony with them.