In Hertfordshire, Bennetts Associates and Citizens Design Bureau have transformed the former Hertford Theatre, bringing it up to speed and expanding its offering as a new multipurpose arts venue. Photos Hufton + Crow On the banks of the River Lea, a new, angular, brick building has arrived in Hertford. ‘BEAM’ as the building is known, […]
Jonathan Spratt from Bennetts Associates argues that, for ‘young’ buildings from the 1990s and early 2000s architects should steer clients away from a comprehensive retrofit approach towards a strategy of ‘keyhole surgery’ – minimal interventions that have a transformative effect. Commercial office space is subject to several contradictions right now. There is an abundance of […]