Expertise: Architecture
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Turning historic buildings into distinctive hotel assets
By Olaf Gröger, director at Hyphen A historic building’s character can contribute to its commercial appeal as a hotel. Realising that opportunity takes architectural know-how to preserve original features while accommodating modern services and daily operations. For real estate developers, asset managers and investors, historic buildings offer the opportunity to create hotels with a distinctive…
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Five months in Mumbai: Hyphen’s team grows to 10
Five months after opening, Hyphen’s Mumbai office has grown to 10 architectural professionals. The team is now working across the wider practice while establishing a base for Hyphen’s architectural advisory work in India. Hyphen’s move into India is part of its continued development across Asia-Pacific, following its expansion into Latin America and Australia. Mumbai provides…
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Historic hotel in Rome
Hyphen was brought into the refurbishment of a historic building in Rome during construction, helping translate an established hotel design into a practical, buildable solution that responded to the realities of the existing property and local regulations. Previously used as a bank, the building had been vacant before its conversion to hospitality use. Its existing…
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Primark
Hyphen worked with Primark to transform Madrid’s historic Cine Salamanca into the brand’s second flagship store in the capital, adapting more than 3,000 sqm across five floors while respecting the character of the protected 1935 building. Originally designed by Francisco Alonso Martos, the building had previously served as a cinema, nightclub and commercial space. Its…
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Rimowa
Hyphen worked with Rimowa to transform a five-storey 19th-century building on London’s New Bond Street into a new flagship boutique, navigating significant structural, regulatory and construction challenges along the way. Dating from 1898 and located within a conservation area, the building came with a number of hidden and complex conditions, including missing foundations, structural stability…
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Gloria Osteria Milano
Hyphen worked with Big Mamma Group to transform an 850 sqm property in Milan’s Brera district into Gloria Osteria, improving how the space operates and addressing longstanding technical constraints. The building had a difficult history, with previous restaurant occupiers experiencing acoustic issues and complaints from neighbouring residents. Working within this sensitive setting, Hyphen reconfigured the…
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Selfridges
Our teams have delivered numerous projects for Selfridges including some famous retail spaces within their flagship store on Oxford Street – an iconic London landmark. Working as executive architects on Selfridges Wonder Room, we ensured that Klein Dytham architecture’s design vision was translated into reality. Inspired by the concept of Wunderkammer and Curiosity Cabinets, the…
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Bicester Village
In the last 15 years, Hyphen has helped deliver more than 40 projects for 15 global brands in Bicester Village, one of the UK’s leading retail destinations. Located on the outskirts of a historical market town in Oxfordshire, Bicester Village is the UK’s second most popular attraction for Chinese tourists – with only Buckingham Palace receiving more annual visitors. Our most recent…
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What Stage 0 entails – and why it matters
By: Eva Diego, CEO at Hyphen Across Europe, retrofit has quietly shifted from being an outlier in development strategy to its default starting point. Yet despite this shift, the industry still sees projects accelerating into concept design long before the existing building is truly understood. This is where risk embeds itself – through untested assumptions,…
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Drawing respite into Seoul: David Shipley wins 2026 Chris Henderson Drawing Prize
David Shipley’s winning project explores mental wellbeing, community and connection in Seoul through hand drawing and biophilic design. How can architecture help people pause, gather and feel connected in a dense, fast-moving city? That question sits at the centre of Putting the Heart into Seoul: Providing Respite & Wellbeing in a Modern Megacity, the winning…
