I’m pleased to see that the Museum of the Home has been given a Reinvention Award by the RIBA: pleased not least that the RIBA now has a Reinvention Award, which recognises high-quality buildings which involve a considerable amount of adaptation and re-use as the Museum of the Home does, preserving the existing early eighteenth-century almshouse building, creating a new run of galleries in the basement and opening a new garden, all of it done with skill.

One wonders where this leaves the Marks and Spencer building in Oxford Street where Marks and Spencer plan to demolish their existing flagship store to replace it with a notably bland office block, as if this will help to regenerate Oxford Street. Michael Gove is due to make an announcement any minute.

https://www.ft.com/content/881d861b-0760-4a1c-a014-8e2023b61e58