Community centres
Spaces by Manah signposts Chennai community centre with barrel-vaulted roof
IF_DO transforms neglected building in Hastings into “genuinely welcoming” community centre
Assemble turns former dairy warehouses into adaptable community hub
Theaster Gates and Studio Zewde to create performance space for Houston’s Freedmen’s Town
Meditative lighting and Banarasi brocade panels decorate Jain community hall in Kolkata
Klein Dytham Architecture completes community centre post-earthquake in Noroshi
Brick barrel vault shelters community kitchen in Iran by Song Architects
DeRoche Projects encloses Accra tennis court with rammed-earth walls
Infill housing centre by Owain Williams Architects is “a public building in miniature”
GLO and Present Forms create “Swiss Army knife” community centre in Hudson
Material Cultures and Studio Gil use biomaterials for London community hub
Snøhetta designs community centre in former quarry to “rise like a spine in the landscape”
Demountable timber library in Amsterdam is “a living room for the neighbourhood”
AOR Architects draws on harbour warehouses for Talas community centre in Helsinki
Thing converts historic Cornish library into The Ladder arts space
John Puttick Associates transforms listed warehouses in Grimsby into youth centre
Terracotta tones define community centre in Finland by Nervin Architecture
UTT Empower crowns community centre in South Africa with rooftop greenhouse
Manalo & White transforms North Wales church into Nyth youth arts centre
Meandering alleyways encourage “spontaneous interactions” at Pune clubhouse by Studio VDGA
O’DonnellBrown frames Scottish performing arts hub with timber colonnade
Spaced Agency references “iconographies of Chinatown” for New York social hub
Space Available crafts Self Care Community Centre from 11 tonnes of plastic waste
