Category: Perspective
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Retail and mixed-use development in India: the importance of local context
The commercial potential of a retail or mixed-use development depends on understanding its market and how people will use it. Hyphen CEO Eva Diego and Bhavna Muttreja Jain, who leads our Mumbai team, consider the local knowledge and technical expertise needed when planning these developments in India. Physical retail needs to give people reasons to…
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Making better use of existing warehouse assets
By Shakir Sufian, senior architect and logistics lead UK at Hyphen Changes to layout, access and the use of space can improve a warehouse’s capacity and performance. Architectural advice helps assess what the building can accommodate and which compliance issues need addressing before committing to expansion or redevelopment. A warehouse’s ability to support a business…
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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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What Stage 0 entails – and why it matters
By: Eva Diego, CEO at Hyphen Understanding an existing building’s potential and constraints before design begins helps clients make informed investment decisions. At Stage 0, Hyphen’s architectural advice tests possible uses, technical requirements and commercial viability while options remain open. Across Europe, retrofit has quietly shifted from being an outlier in development strategy to its…
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What makes an office suitable for conversion into a hotel?
By: Olaf Gröger, director at Hyphen Underused office buildings can offer new opportunities for hospitality, but not every property will make a viable hotel. Hyphen director Olaf Gröger considers the location, planning, spatial and operational questions that need to be tested. Changing patterns of work, leisure and travel are prompting owners and investors to look…
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The power of ‘built in’ building control expertise
By: Georgina Mullen, director at Hyphen Building control expertise within an architectural practice helps teams address compliance from the outset. Hyphen director Georgina Mullen explains how early collaboration and technical know-how can reduce the risk of costly redesign and support safe, compliant buildings. There is a phrase I’ve heard far too often in our industry:…
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Could existing buildings unlock smarter data centre development?
By: Eva Diego, CEO at Hyphen In conversation with Alexandra Gheorghiu at DCD in Spain, Hyphen CEO Eva Diego builds on her recent interviews about the importance of architectural advice at Stage Zero to explore why re-purposing existing buildings into data centres deserves far more attention. While new-build development has long been seen as the…
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How to de‑risk retrofit before design even begins
By: Eva Diego, CEO at Hyphen Early assessment of an existing building can help identify risks before design decisions become costly to change. Hyphen CEO Eva Diego explains how Stage 0 brings technical investigation and commercial priorities together to test what an asset can realistically deliver. Across Europe, retrofit has become the default starting point…
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Data centres and the future of our cities
What is the relationship between data centres and urban environments?We asked Hyphen data centre experts Matias Menichetti and Muhammad Khan to discuss the future of data centres in our cities in both Latin America and the UK.
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Data centres – collaboration between Latin America and Europe
Our Latin American and European teams collaborate on data centre design.In this short video, Hyphen directors Matias Menichetti and Muhammad Khan talk about the value of collaboration and lessons we can learn from mature data centre markets.
