The sensitive restoration of one of Southwark’s last surviving Victorian warehouses – 55 Great Suffolk Street – has been named Retrofit winner at New London Architecture’s New London Awards 2022.

Our plans for the derelict Grade II-listed warehouse will see the much-loved Bankside building – vacant for 50 years and on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register – brought back into use as characterful, creative workspace.

Designs by Hawkins\Brown and our own in-house design team Studio Fabrix combine meticulous restoration of original features with a new, distinctly-contemporary, external core structure.

The addition allows for the building’s open floorplates to remain uninterrupted, with the carbon impact minimised through the use of reclaimed steel salvaged from another building – one of the first projects in the UK to do so.

This is a very special building which holds a very special place in a lot of people’s hearts – not least ours. We can’t wait to bring it back to life with our fantastic consultant team.