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Share this article 10 of the Best Art Exhibitions Reopening in London in 2021 From big names like Hockney and Kusama to the launch of London Gallery Weekend. After non-essential retail and outdoor hospitality reopened last month, allowing the U.K.’s bars and restaurants to welcome customers after months of closures, the U.K. is now poised to allow the next relaxing of lockdowns. One of the key changes in this phase of restrictions easing is the opening of art galleries, many of which have been closed for the entirety of 2021 so far. While commercial galle...

AJ Retrofit Awards 2021 winners revealed with Pearson Lloyd has been named AJ Retrofit of the Year 2021 The conversion of a warehouse in Hackney, east London, not only found a new use for a building that faced demolition but reused as many materials as possible – both from the site and reclamation yards. Advertisement The AJ’s Rob Wilson and Fran Williams, who chaired the various judging panels, said the winning project was  ‘notable for having transformed some previously unremarkable and ramshackle commercial structures into a rather poetic and beautiful whole’. The scheme, which a...