If the greenest building is the one that is already built, then refurbishment & re-purposing would seem to be a good strategy for the green transition.

As Wilma Kempinga, quoted by Rowan Moore, points out: 'A lot of people like new buildings... & don’t have the imagination to see what’s possible with old ones'... the problem is when (as with the repurposing of offices into residential) the commercial motive undermines the green... but still worth pushing?

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