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21 May 2020

Re-use starts on site

Our design studio was founded to help stoke imagination and inspiration.

We offer our clients simple, practical advice that through an understanding of how buildings are made and how materials are used, empowers their decision making.

When we get onsite the first question for our team is always what can we use that we already have? How can we use it again?

By peeling back the added layers of this building we can discover what it should and wants to be. Lighting fixtures and parquet overlay are carefully removed, cleaned and bagged ready to re-circulate into the construction industry for re-use.

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