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Re:store - SAVE Britian's Heritage and The Architects' Journal
April 2024
Simon Henley is one of the judges for Re:store, an ideas competition jointly organised by SAVE Britain's Heritage and the Architects’ Journal for the M&S Oxford Street site.
The independent judges are drawing up the shortlist and evaluatng the final line-up of up to six teams.
Simon will be joined by:
- Neal Shashore, head of school and chief executive of the London School of Architecture
- Sanaa Shaikh, architect, educator, and activist with the Architects’ Climate Action Network (ACAN) who founded her own practice, Native Studio
- Basil Demeroutis, managing partner of commercial property investment firm and B Corp FORE Partnership, which is helping to fund the competition
The Re:store competition, which is independent of M&S, seeks to promote debate and ideally create a model for the adaptive re-use of the UK's multitude of attractive but ageing department store buildings.
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Simon was the author of an article in the Architects' Journal which argued for the retention of the store and is available to read here.
He argued that "This – entirely unnecessary – erasure of embodied memory, just like the release of so much embodied carbon, is not always easy to articulate but it amounts to a grievous act of public vandalism."
For further information, please see the competition website here.