Sheerness Dockyard Church wins the 2025 RIBA Reinvention Award!

This annual award celebrates projects that incorporate sensitive restoration and significant and innovative material use, transforming the communities around them. It recognises achievements made in creative building reuse to improve their environmental, social, or economic sustainability. It aims to shine a light on retrofitting, increasing the longevity and energy efficiency of existing buildings, and reducing the need for demolition and new construction.

Reinvention Award 2025 jury members

• Julia Barfield, Managing Director, Marks Barfield Architects, Chair
• Stephanie Crombie, Supernatural Studio, Sustainability Advisor
• Leanne Tritton Hon. FRIBA, Don’t Waste Buildings, Lay assessor
• Edward Farleigh-Dastmalchi, fardaa, Reinvention Winner, 2024

Martin Ashley Architects are delighted to have collaborated with Hugh Broughton and the Dockyard Preservation Trust on this inspirational project.