{"id":282582,"date":"2026-01-13T20:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/282582\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:18:10","slug":"bureau-de-change-enlivens-apartment-block-with-pink-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/282582\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureau de Change enlivens apartment block with pink panels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Architecture studio Bureau de Change<\/a>\u00a0has updated a 1980s apartment<\/a> block in London<\/a>, revitalising its facade with pink concrete<\/a> panels made from demolition waste.<\/p>\n

Named Trace, the building in Euston was revamped for developer HGG<\/a> to provide five apartments across its six storeys, which include two floors added as part of the project.<\/p>\n

Bureau de Change<\/a> sought to reuse as much of the existing structure as possible, retaining the building’s original foundations and primary structure, and using bricks from its original facade to create a new frontage of glass-reinforced concrete panels.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorBureau de Change\u00a0has updated a 1980s apartment block in London<\/p>\n

“The existing building was clad with ’80s red brick, so we felt that retaining a reference to that would be fitting for the new building,” studio co-founder Billy Mavropoulos told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“We collected the facade demolition material \u2013 brick and mortar \u2013 and we crushed it down to a maximum six-millimetre-thick aggregate,” Mavropoulos added.<\/p>\n

“That was then reconstituted in the new panels we cast for the new facade.”<\/p>\n

\"RearThe building was renewed and extended with two additional floors<\/p>\n

The concrete panels, which were hand-cast individually, are organised across the exterior in a gridded pattern that ranges from a reddish to pale pink shade.<\/p>\n

They are set off by dark-framed, arched windows at each level and a matching top-floor extension.<\/p>\n

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A shared entrance, updated with a similarly arched form and concrete-clad frame, sits beside the large archway at ground level and opens up to a circulation core.<\/p>\n

“The glass-reinforced concrete panels are unique on each level and each one of them consists of various colour and aggregate density layers,” Mavropoulos explained.<\/p>\n

\"EntranceColoured concrete panels cloak the building<\/p>\n

Inside, the block contains three two-bedroom apartments on the first, second and third floors, while two one-bedroom apartments occupy the newly added fourth and fifth floors.<\/p>\n

Each of the apartments gains daylight from large openings on both facades, with terraces on the building’s top floor.<\/p>\n

The interiors feature bespoke designs by London-based studios Jan Hendzel Studio<\/a>, Sedilia<\/a> and A Rum Fellow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"InteriorJan Hendzel Studio is among the local designers to feature furniture in the project<\/p>\n

Other projects recently completed by the studio include a yellow-brick extension to a Victorian house in Fulham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also in London, EBBA Architects founder Benni Allan recently used timber to renovate his own apartment in a former tea factory<\/a> and Uncanny Studio revamped a 1930s penthouse to create a flow between its rooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Gilbert McCarragher<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Architecture studio Bureau de Change\u00a0has updated a 1980s apartment block in London, revitalising its facade with pink concrete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[18974,365,362,363,364,20360,29656,366,18,4507,117,19,17,130,83147,33768,2919,10357,10358,1294],"class_list":{"0":"post-282582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-apartments","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-bureau-de-change","14":"tag-concrete","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-london","22":"tag-london-apartments","23":"tag-pink","24":"tag-renovations","25":"tag-sectionall","26":"tag-sectionarchitecture","27":"tag-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115889642177914342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}