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Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2022

Disclaimer: The Pineapples 2022 and presentations took place in May 2022. The details provided for each project may have changed since.

Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2022

Creative Retrofit

Station South, Manchester – Station South Community Interest Company

"Station South is a destination cycle café-bar, bike workshop in Levenshulme, Manchester that also incorporates flexible public space for co-working, retail and events as well as an urban garden. The project is led by social entrepreneurs, Station South CIC, who wanted to see the restoration of the dilapidated Victorian railway station, Levenshulme South."

Shortlisted for Creative Retrofit - The Pineapples Awards 2022

2022 Creative Retrofit

$Waltham Forest Town Hall, Waltham Forest, London – Waltham Forest Council with Hawkins\Brown and Churchman Thornhill Finch Landscape Architects$

Waltham Forest Town Hall, Waltham Forest, London – Waltham Forest Council with Hawkins\Brown and Churchman Thornhill Finch Landscape Architects

The refurbished Town Hall consolidates staff into one location and frees up vacated sites for much needed housing. Cellular offices are replaced with open-plan, agile workspaces to promote collaboration, wellbeing and productivity. A flexible foyer accommodates everything from collaborative working to evening events. An interactive water feature replaces creates a fully accessible forecourt while encouraging children to play.

Shortlisted for Creative Retrofit - The Pineapples Awards 2022

2022 Creative Retrofit

The Ada Belfield Care Centre and Belper Library, Belper, Derbyshire – Derbyshire County Council with Glancy Nicholls Architects

The former Thornton’s factory is repurposed and extended to provide this community with high-quality residential care and a new public library. By re-purposing and extending the building’s spaces, the historic character embodies local heritage whilst dispelling the stigma commonly associated with buildings for the elderly.

Shortlisted for Creative Retrofit - The Pineapples Awards 2022

2022 Creative Retrofit

Kampus: Mishull Warehouse and Minto & Turner buildings, Manchester – Capital & Centric with shedkm

These two listed buildings form part of the wider Kampus development, a PRS scheme and garden neighbourhood for the city. Throughout the design process, the number one priority was to retain the qualities of the existing mill buildings as they were transformed into homes. Where interventions were inserted into the building, a clear relationship exists between old and new allowing this chapter of the buildings to be read clearly in years to come.

Shortlisted for Creative Retrofit - The Pineapples Awards 2022

2022 Creative Retrofit

British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) Headquarters, Westminster, London – BAFTA and The Crown Estate with Benedetti Architects

BAFTA’s Piccadilly headquarters are important to London’s west-end and a jewel in The Crown Estate’s St James’s portfolio. This renewal makes BAFTA fully accessible physically and culturally, as a creative centre for the film, TV and games industries and a central hub for BAFTA’s UK-wide, and global, learning and new talent development programme.

Shortlisted for Creative Retrofit - The Pineapples Awards 2022

2022 Creative Retrofit

Bloqs, Enfield, London – Enfield Council with Meridian Water, Bloqs and 5th Studio

Enfield Council has collaborated with Bloqs to facilitate moving their premises through the adaptive reuse of a former vehicle testing plant. The result is the largest open-access workshop in Europe with state-of-the-art facilities from woodwork and metalwork, to fashion and sewing, engineering, and spray finishing with hi-tech machinery, as well as other resources and services such as courses and classrooms.

Shortlisted for Creative Retrofit - The Pineapples Awards 2022

2022 Creative Retrofit

Houlton School, Houlton, Rugby – Urban&Civic and Aviva Investors

This transformation of the Grade II listed Rugby Radio Station into a 6FE secondary school lies at the heart of this wider development of 6,200 homes. The C Station building has been restored, alongside two new teaching blocks, a sports hall and outdoor sports facilities. Dating back to 1925, the Rugby Radio Station site was once a communications hub of global significance, and is a well-loved local landmark.

Winner of Creative Retrofit - The Pineapples Awards 2022

2022 Creative Retrofit Winner