About this episode

Anne Taylor and Michael Buchtmann discuss their award-winning project that transformed a grain store into sustainable accommodation.

We talk with architects and founders of Taylor Buchtmann Architecture, Anne Taylor, and Michael Buchtmann, who are also the winners of the 2025 Sustainability Award in the Adaptive Reuse – Alteration/Addition category about their extraordinary award-winning project, The Stopover. This remarkable build transformed a dilapidated grain store into resilient, sensitive accommodation that honours both place and purpose. We dive in and hear from the two amazing minds behind this inspirin...

Topics covered

• adaptive reuse
• rural design
• building waste
• sustainability

Keywords

• architecture
• design
• The Stopover
• Sustainability Award

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