Community centre
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Project • By MArchitecten • Community Centres
Ontmoetingscentrum Heerenveen
On the Crackstraat in Heerenveen stands a late nineteenth-century building, facing the town's landmark Crackstate. It served as a parish centre, but no longer met the needs of its users, so MArchitecten designed a renovation and extension. In the first phase the later additions were demolished and the facade was cleaned up and restored. A new extension at the rear houses a cloister walk and a youth room.
Theo Mestemaker
Between the parish centre, the presbytery and the church a town cloister garden was laid out. Surrounded by the cloister walk, the garden is open to the public and offers space for art and culture. Inside the renovated building are meeting and rehearsal rooms, a lounge, a quiet room and several halls. On the upper floo... More
Project • By Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects • Apartments
Bancroft & Wickford Street
The Bancroft TMC & Wickford Street project comprises the redevelopment of two sites in the heart of Bethnal Green. In addition to 33 new homes for local families, the scheme enhances the wider estate with comprehensive landscaping and imrpoved lighting, transforming a neglected area of East London into a safer, more welcoming, and healthier environment.
Tim Crocker
Tim Crocker
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Tim Crocker
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FBM Architects
FBM Architects
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News • News • 8 Oct 2024
Archello Awards 2024 Longlist – Community Centre of the Year
Archello Awards 2024 has revealed its longlist for Community Centre of the Year. The longlists celebrate the very best building products, architecture projects, and firms selected from over 1,000 entries for the second edition of Archello's annual awards program.
Espalion intercommunal nursery and early childhood relay
Atelier orra
Located along the Saint-Jacques de Compostelle trail, nestled below the Calmont d’Olt castle, the project site is positioned on the slope of the Lot Valley, facing the Aubrac mountains. In this meadow at the wes...
Pet Resource Center
RA-DA
As the first building of its kind, the Pet Resource Center is a revolution in the animal care industry. With kennels and... More
News • News • 18 Mar 2024
Nokha Village Community Centre by Sanjay Puri Architects is an architectural oasis in the desert
Mumbai-based Sanjay Puri Architects has completed the Nokha Village Community Centre, an architectural oasis set in the desert region of Nokha in Rajasthan, India. The building’s sweeping curvilinear volume spirals upwards from its north-eastern corner — looping around the site, it rises gradually to a height of nine meters (30 feet), arriving at a north-facing viewing platform.
Mr. Vinay Panjwani
Mr. Vinay Panjwani
The Nokha Village Community Centre was commissioned by Padam Interiors and is a memorial for the founder Padamramji Kularia. Nokha is a district in the western Indian state of Rajasthan that consists of 144 small villages. “Studies of the vicinity and the current facilities in village schools... More
Project • By SAKO Architects • Community Centres
SQUARES in Tianshui
The SQUARES in Tianshui is a communal facility that combines a public library and community welfare services with sustainable architecture. Designed by Japanese-led SAKO Architects, it was China’s first zero-carbon library. The building reflects SAKO Architects’ penchant for bold, geometric architecture that blends playful forms with cultural sensitivity.
SQUARES is defined by a series of interconnected square rooms and motifs. Its thoughtful, light-filled design fosters intergenerational connection and quiet reflection in a small residential town setting.
Luo Juncai
Luo Juncai
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A community hub
The Yangzheng Library, the project’s official name, is located in the Panjizhai village of Tiansh... More
Project • By Lemay • Community Centres
USAY Youth Centre
Located in Calgary’s Forest Lawn neighbourhood, the traditional territory of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Iyarhe Nakoda, and Tsuut’ina Nations as well as the Metis Nation of Region 3, the USAY Youth Centre was co-designed and co-authored between Lemay and the Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (USAY).
Designed as a much-needed place of belonging and personal development for the thousands of Indigenous youth USAY supports between the ages of 12 and 29, this 5,000 square foot building with an adjoining 6,400 square foot outdoor lot acts as a hub of accessibility, safety, cultural relevance, education, and skill-building.
The project measures nearly 5,000 square feet across two floors, encompassing a main floor composed of... More
Project • By Brusnika Company, Russia • Community Centres
Local community centre
Located in the European Riverfront in Novosibirsk, the community centre is intended for residents of four urban villas standing in close quarters. It is a pilot project Brusnika is running to verify the need for a district centre in the 32-house estate. Two similar projects have proved viable in the Moscow region and Tyumen.
Natalia Bochkova
Natalia Bochkova
The centre of 140,5 metres square sits on the ground floor of one of the urban villas. The architects planned it to create extra facilities for residents and promote good neighbourly relations. The community centre is perfect for organising movie nights, taking decisions about running the house or using it for work, lectures, workshops, or birthday parties. The civic ar... More
Project • By WR-AP • Community Centres
Richmond MakerLabs
The Richmond MakerLabs forms part of the overall regeneration of Ham Close in Richmond. Working collaboratively alongside the client team which includes Hill Group UK, RHP Group and Richmond Council and our partners at BPTW Architects, LUC Landscape Architects and Sphere 25, the overall project seeks to provide the delivery of 452 new homes (49% of which will be affordable), new community facilities and public realm improvements.
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WR-AP’s contribution to the scheme includes a new facility for the existing Ham community group, the Richmond MakerLabs. The Richmond MakerLabs is a member-run community workshop within the Ham United Group (HUG) who meet bi-weekly to ‘tinker, make, hack and be friendly’. The organis... More
News • News • 8 Mar 2023
Archikon designs light and playful apartment at the heart of Budapest
It is hardly surprising that architects find themselves retrofitting old spaces for new and emerging contemporary programmes as Budapest is known for the strata of its rich and complicated architectural heritage. Finding a place for modern programmes within a historic shell is a particularly interesting problem because frequently these programmes are still undergoing clarification in terms of what spatial arrangements they require. Pannka Part is a brand-new kind of play and community centre that is located in the middle of a bustling residential neighbourhood with access to the Danube shore.
Balázs Danyi
The Palatinus House, which is primarily a residential structure but was one of the most opulent and contemporary structure... More
Biyal-a Armstrong Creek Library
A distinctive landmark, the Biyal-a Armstrong Creek Library and community hub plays an important role in establishing a sense of identity for the new Armstrong Creek Town Centre precinct and sets a benchmark for future development.
The $21.8 million facility designed by Buchan spans 2,500 square metres across three storeys and contains more than 30,000 new books and resources, along with a children’s story time area, outdoor terraces and multipurpose and creative spaces.
The library’s expressive facade is punctuated by playful circular windows which represent many individuals coming together and is inspired by the ‘living water’ design narrative developed with the Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporati... More
Project • By OVERCODE architecture urbanisme • Community Centres
COMMUNITY CENTER ALCO
Amiens’s town hall wants to construct a new building for the ALCO non-profit organization. ALCO is a community base association that dedicates to support precarious families in need of cohesion and empowerment. It provides the community a multiplicity of activities from educational media, plastic art, theater, poetry, to social mediation in a multiethnic neighborhood. ALCO is an organization, as it is a place for the community to gather, share and bond in a proactive environment.
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The town hall made available a site at the heart of the neighborhood school campus, which included buildings from primary school, to middle school, sports hall, soccer field and small concert hall – theater. It was a strategic positi... More
Project • By GEC Architecture • Community Centres
Shane Homes YMCA at Rocky Ridge
Nestled in the rolling foothills of northwest Calgary, Canada, the Shane Homes YMCA at Rocky Ridge (Shane Homes YMCA) is one of the largest YMCA’s in the world and provides the region with essential wellness amenities. This facility serves as the regional hub for community gathering, cultural programs, recreational facilities, and child care services. The extensive glazing and unifying curved timber roof that links each space creates an inclusive and vibrant atmosphere, engaging passersby and heightening curiosity.
The Shane Homes YMCA takes inspiration from the rolling hills and layered horizons. Its park-like site allows natural recreation uses; pathways curve through the site connecting users to the reconstructed wet... More
Project • By sons of architecture • Primary Schools
Elementary School Amos for Psáry and Dolní Jirčany
Urban planning and architectural design
The new school campus creates within the municipality a place with its own identity. Despite its size the building and its entrance area is not disturbing the spatial and functional context of the place as it stands on the other end of an urban axis connecting the campus with the village square unveiling its potential to become a lively street. The community character of the building is visually supported by a public library situated in an exposed corner facing the village. The school is set in a mellow slope and the design works with different floor counts facing the entrance area on one side and the school grounds on the other one. The large building is divided into several structural vo... More
Project • By AHR • Community Centres
Greenwood Centre
The Greenwood Centre, part of Camden Council’s Community Investment Programme (CIP), their plan for investing over £1 billion in building schools, homes and community facilities in Camden, is the first of its kind in the borough, with its services enriching lives since its opening earlier this year.
Designed by multi-award winning architecture and building consultancy practice AHR, the £18m centre which houses Camden’s first Centre for Independent Living (CIL) is run by disabled people for disabled people, offering specialist advice and support, opportunities for professional development, and spaces to learn new skills, be active, form relationships and grow in independence.
WaiLun Ho, director at AHR said,... More
Project • By brg3s • Community Centres
Memphis Slim Collaboratory
Memphis Slim (Peter Chatman), the famed blues singer and pianist, drew attention for his punishing performing schedule and unorthodox lifestyle. Extreme poverty characterized much of his life, but also created a personality which was uncommonly resourceful. His life embodied the paradox of his music: A hard life and rough experiences were transformed into musical energy that is upbeat and full of life, the essence of triumph.The Collaboratory is meant to remind us of the everyday yet not be encumbered by it as we reach for the extraordinary. This reflects the paradox that is Memphis Slim’s life and music. His boyhood home was typical of many in the low-income neighborhood in which it is located. Like the others, it reflects the charact... More