My Kind of Town: Chris Williamson
AT Editor2024-04-18T08:42:26+00:00Chris Williamson, chairman, WestonWilliamson+Partners on Ilkeston, Derbyshire and how he hopes its rejuvenation can be kick-started.
Back in black: Castle Community Rooms by James Gorst Architects
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-16T12:35:05+00:00James Gorst Architect’s new community centre in Suffolk sits quietly in the landscape and riffs on the county’s black barn vernacular
Born again: St John’s Waterloo renovated by Eric Parry
Jason Sayer2022-11-22T12:16:20+00:00Eric Parry Architects has given a new lease of life to the Grade II* listed St John’s church in Waterloo, which only just survived the Blitz.
Mae designs John Morden Centre for older people
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:23+00:00Mae has designed a community building that provides well-being and recreational facilities for the later living residents of London’s Morden College in Blackheath. Mary Duggan appreciates a sophisticated, humane design that reflects and anticipates social change.
Kinning Park Complex
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-12-18T21:27:03+00:00Richard Lavington applauds New Practice’s sympathetic and intelligent reworking of a vital, multi-use community resource in Glasgow Southside.
Holborn House
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:17:11+00:006a Architects has refurbished and extended a run-down gym in central London to create a new community centre featuring an etched-glass facade by the artist Caragh Thuring.
St Mary’s Centre
Jessica Mairs2021-06-14T16:41:46+00:00Erect Architecture has designed a textured brick community centre adjoining a church by Sir George Gilbert Scott in Stoke Newington, north London.