{"id":738,"date":"2026-04-30T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/2026\/04\/30\/all-saints-london-an-adaptive-reuse-project-by-epr-architects\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:05:16","slug":"all-saints-london-an-adaptive-reuse-project-by-epr-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/industry-news\/all-saints-london-an-adaptive-reuse-project-by-epr-architects\/","title":{"rendered":"All Saints, London: An Adaptive Reuse Project by EPR Architects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Project Feature Courtesy of Hannah Baker<\/a>, Senior Associate,\u00a0EPR Architects<\/a><\/p>

EPR Architects\u2019 London home, All Saints, is a retrofit that epitomises the values of the practice.\u00a0Originally constructed in the nineteenth century as an orphanage and later converted into a hospital, the All Saints building has been most recently used by the Imperial War Museum as a photography archive and office. Following years of unsympathetic alterations, EPR\u2019s design re-establishes the lost grandeur of this impressive five-storey Victorian building whilst making bold interventions that safeguard its future as a viable workplace – providing a variety of spaces tailored to the needs of our design teams that reflect and enable our collaborative style of working.<\/p>

A series of new openings that cut through the exterior walls provide visual and physical connectivity between the wings whilst also creating a variety of vibrant spaces to work and socialise. Our approach to the scheme’s interiors was heavily influenced by the existing fabric and layers of history on display. A cantilevered stone staircase, mosaic tiled floors and original brickwork have all been carefully retained and celebrated by pairing them with complementary new finishes. New bespoke hand-glazed tiles by world-renowned ceramic artist Kate Malone also complement the examples of craftsmanship retained in the building.

Externally, the design sympathetically restores the main front fa\u00e7ade; to the rear two modern contemporary extensions finished in zinc clearly distinguish themselves from the building’s historic fa\u00e7ades.\u00a0<\/p>

Enhanced wellbeing measures incorporate a strong focus on improved amenity spaces and facilities. These include the introduction of a large central social hub; for informal meetings, lunch and social events; a wellness room, green terraces and extensive cycle and end-of-journey facilities. Throughout the studio, biophilia has been used to complement the broad range of external planting.<\/p>

An exemplar of sustainable refurbishment, the scheme redefines the role of the existing All Saints building in a modern context.\u00a0<\/p>

The use of embodied carbon was carefully monitored with embodied carbon analysis and kept to a minimum through informed design choices. The scheme sought to reuse existing materials wherever possible, sensitively reclaiming bricks from the demolished extensions and refurbishing existing finishes, such as the original tiled floors. New materials introduced to the building, such as the hybrid steel and timber structure used to form the new extensions, were selected for their low carbon content.\u00a0<\/p>

The footprint of the building during its operational life has been significantly improved by EPR’s sustainability strategy. A fabric-first approach was adopted to sympathetically upgrade and replace poor-performing existing building elements with new thermally efficient alternatives. This approach, combined with a mixed-mode ventilation strategy that allows passive cooling of the studio spaces via natural ventilation and an all-electric heating and cooling system, enabling the building to be net zero carbon in operation.\u00a0<\/p>

The scheme targets BREEAM Excellent and embodies many of the WELL Standards.<\/p>

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EPR Architects transforms a historic Victorian building into a contemporary workplace that balances heritage with innovation. Through careful restoration, bold spatial interventions, and a strong sustainability strategy, All Saints demonstrates how retrofit can create a flexible, human-centred environment designed for modern ways of working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-industry-news","category-spotlight-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megamultisite.divcomstaging.co.uk\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}