Join us on Saturday 2nd May for a tour of Skinners' Hall by 6a architects.
Skinners' Hall is a Grade I listed building and the scheduled monument home of one of London's Great Twelve Livery Companies. The project involved an eight-year transformation, representing a growing responsibility for contemporary architecture to reuse, repair, and re-design existing buildings without erasing their multiple pasts.
At Skinners' Hall, decarbonisation and heritage conservation have been conceived as a single architectural process. Failing services have been entirely replaced and the building has been transitioned from gas to a fully electric system powered by air‑source heat pumps. Sensitive thermal upgrades throughout the listed fabric and new mechanical ventilation with heat recovery further reduce operational energy, setting the Hall on a pathway to achieving a dramatic reduction in energy use.
A new rooftop pavilion built from European oak, brick, limestone and stainless steel provides step-free access for the first time to the Court and adds a contemporary architectural layer to the historic ensemble. Its form responds to existing cornices and architraves overlaid to avoid archaeology below, while subtly echoing the Hall’s longstanding language of brick, timber and metalwork.
Photographs: Johan Dehlin
Location and time:
Date: Saturday 2nd May 2026
Time: 10:30-13:30
Location: Skinners' Hall, 8 Dowgate Hill, London EC4R 2SP
