Finnish studio AOR Architects has completed a community centre on Helsinki's waterfront, using a palette of timber and corrugated metal informed by maritime warehouses and coastal shelters. More about AOR Architects draws on harbour warehouses for Talas community centre in Helsinki
Architecture collective Assemble has converted a pair of former dairy warehouses into a "robust and adaptable" community centre and church on Becontree Estate in east London. More about Assemble turns former dairy warehouses into adaptable community hub
Artist Theaster Gates and landscape designer Sara Zewde have designed a pavilion from recovered building materials that will be a community centre in a historic Black neighbourhood in Houston, Texas. More about Theaster Gates and Studio Zewde to create performance space for Houston's Freedmen's Town
UK architecture studio Thing has transformed a former library in Cornwall into an arts and cultural hub, contrasting its historic surfaces with timber elements informed by theatre stage sets. More about Thing converts historic Cornish library into The Ladder arts space
UK studio John Puttick Associates has refurbished a group of disused Victorian warehouses in Grimsby to create the Horizon Youth Zone, adding a sawtooth-roofed sports court that nods to the site's industrial past. More about John Puttick Associates transforms listed warehouses in Grimsby into youth centre
Local studio Spaces and Design used regional craftsmanship and earthy colours to create the Sangha Bhawan community centre in India. More about Meditative lighting and Banarasi brocade panels decorate Jain community hall in Kolkata
Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has showcased Home for All Noroshi, a community centre that incorporates roof tiles from homes destroyed in Japan's Noto earthquake, in this video shared with Dezeen. More about Klein Dytham Architecture completes community centre post-earthquake in Noroshi
A terracotta-toned palette of concrete, brickwork and tiles nods to Lappeenranta's distinctive 1980s civic architecture at Sammontalo, a mixed-use community building in Finland by local studio Nervin Architecture. More about Terracotta tones define community centre in Finland by Nervin Architecture
A sawtooth greenhouse framed in red steel acts as "a beacon" atop Soweto Caracas Community Centre in the South African township of Khayelitsha, recently completed by non-profit Urban-Think Tank Empower. More about UTT Empower crowns community centre in South Africa with rooftop greenhouse
A barrel vault of steel and brick fronted by glossy turquoise tiles shelters this community kitchen in Iran, designed by local studio Song Architects. More about Brick barrel vault shelters community kitchen in Iran by Song Architects
Four-metre-high rammed-earth walls frame the plot of Backyard Community Club in Accra, Ghana, completed by local studio DeRoche Projects. More about DeRoche Projects encloses Accra tennis court with rammed-earth walls
London-based architecture studio Manalo & White has converted a 19th-century church into a youth arts centre for Welsh-language theatre company Frân Wen in Bangor, north Wales. More about Manalo & White transforms North Wales church into Nyth youth arts centre
Perforated brick walls, courtyards and arcades are intended to imitate the bylanes of an Indian city at The Street, a community clubhouse in Pune, India, designed by local practice Studio VDGA. More about Meandering alleyways encourage "spontaneous interactions" at Pune clubhouse by Studio VDGA
Local studio Owain Williams Architects has transformed a disused garage site in London into the Stroud Green Housing Centre, creating a public drop-in space and office fronted by a large timber gate. More about Infill housing centre by Owain Williams Architects is "a public building in miniature"
New York-based studios GLO and Present Forms transformed a former tobacco warehouse in Hudson into a community education and arts centre. More about GLO and Present Forms create "Swiss Army knife" community centre in Hudson
Scottish architecture studio O'DonnellBrown has overhauled and extended a 1970s community centre in Kilmarnock to create a performing arts hub for the charity organisation Take A Bow. More about O'DonnellBrown frames Scottish performing arts hub with timber colonnade
US studio Spaced Agency has created a headquarters for non-profit Welcome to Chinatown in New York City, divided by one long curtain and mobile wooden "carts" to make the space flexible for a variety of events. More about Spaced Agency references "iconographies of Chinatown" for New York social hub
Design studio Material Cultures and architecture practice Studio Gil have used a mix of local, bio-based and recycled materials to create a home for a community food-growing hub in London. More about Material Cultures and Studio Gil use biomaterials for London community hub
Architecture studio Snøhetta has unveiled Lakehouse, a concrete-and-timber community centre in Mölnlycke, Sweden, with a walkable green roof designed to mimic treetops. More about Snøhetta designs community centre in former quarry to "rise like a spine in the landscape"
Multidisciplinary design studio Space Available has established a community centre in Jakarta, Indonesia, featuring a conversation pit containing recycling machines and furniture made from ocean plastic. More about Space Available crafts Self Care Community Centre from 11 tonnes of plastic waste