With the decline of postal services everywhere, those vast sorting offices are being reinvented. Design shows and such like are staged in Lille’s Tri Postal and in the old sorting office on London’s New Oxford Street, which will host the annual uber-funky DesignJunction show again in September.
While the industrical-chic qualities of these two buildings have remained, UK architects Squire and Partners did a thorough conversion of an Edwardian sorting office in London’s Victoria, which is now home to contemporary art and design auctioneers Phillips.