A former German bunker which has been restored into a modern home could be named the conversion of the year, in an awards ceremony later this month.
Bunker Six Eighty One, a three bedroom home in what once was a 12-soldier personnel bunker at Rocquaine, was designed by A7 Architecture and developed by BDL.
It has been shortlisted in the conversion category in the Architectural Technology Awards alongside a Grade II sandstone cave network which was converted to a bar, and a planetarium in an abandoned Victorian underground reservoir.
The winner will be announced at a ceremony in London on 26 September.
The bunker was constructed with two-metre thick reinforced concrete walls in 1942 during the Nazi occupation of the island.
It was abandoned for years before the teams decided to spend five years painstakingly restoring and adapting it for living.
Diamond saws were used to cut the concrete to install sun tunnels, waterproofing and heating.
It is the only fully converted Second World War personnel bunker in the British Isles and is currently marketed for sale for £1.7m.
André Rolfe-Bisson, Founder of A7 Architecture said: “You don’t start a project like this thinking it’ll be easy. We were working with two-metre-thick concrete walls, no windows, and 80 years of history – but that was the appeal.
“To see Bunker Six Eighty One recognised on an international stage shows just how far imagination and perseverance can take you.”