Culture and community

Quarry Studios, Aberdeenshire

Moxon Architects for Moxon Architects

Chipperfield’s subtle interventions revive Procuratie Vecchie in Venice

Invisible workings open and improve ancient Piazza San Marco building

The Burrell Collection renovation: For better or worse?

Kieran Gaffney considers John McAslan’s ‘significant changes’

Grange Pavilion, Cardiff

Benham Architects and IBI Group for Grange Pavillion CIO

Magdalene College Library, Cambridge

Niall McLaughlin Architects for Magdalene College

Ely Museum, Cambridgeshire

HAT Projects for Ely Museum

Lambeth Palace Library

Wright & Wright Architects for Church Commissioners for England

Sands End Arts & Community Centre, Fulham

Mæ Architects for Hammersmith & Fulham Council

Stanbridge Mill Library, Dorset

Crawshaw Architects for private client

Treadgolds, Portsmouth

Pritchard Architecture for John Pounds Community Trust

Áras Uí Chonghaile/James Connolly Visitor Centre, Belfast

McGurk Architects for Fáilte Feirste Thiar

Ada Belfield Centre and Belper Library, Belper, Derbyshire

Glancy Nicholls Architects for Derbyshire County Council

The Undercroft Learning Centre, Worcester Cathedral, Worcester

Acanthus Clews Architects for Dean & Chapter Of Worcester Cathedral

Special Exhibitions Gallery, Manchester

Carmody Groarke for the Museum of Science and Industry

Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne

FaulknerBrowns Architects for Newcastle City Council

The largely glazed facade is open and welcoming.

MacEwen Award winner: Nourish Hub’s communal effort is recipe for success

RCKa joined a collaboration to tackle multiple needs

Access, support and social benefit shine in MacEwen Award entries

Architects demonstrate will to give access and support to all

MacEwen-commended church broadens community reach

MacEwen Award commends church adapted by Studio B.A.D. to modern needs

An exercise bench on Claridge Way multi-tasks as seating and playspace.

A Common Plan to help people walk, rest and play

MacEwen Award commends Jan Kattein Architects’ revitalisation of a Thamesmead walkway

Black Country’s shiny new route to work commended in MacEwen Award

Cullinan Studio's technical institute will train and place locals in careers

Bristol youth centre gives its users authorship of the space

Askew Cavanna Architects' redesign of a community centre for black-led charity Full Circle@Docklands

Bristol modular housing factory offers jobs and training

Alex Dutton / SNUG Homes' Lockleaze factory is in one of the city's most deprived neighbourhoods

Pop-up creative hub provides meanwhile use for Enfield shopping centre

Dallas-Pierce-Quintero's Culture Palace demonstrates the importance of arts in the recovery of the high street

AHMM bereavement centre provides support in sensitive environment

AHMM's Alder Centre provides support for bereaved individuals after the death of a child

Large double-height spaces have been repurposed into spacious child-friendly rooms with visual interest.

Derelict Liverpool library remodelled for childcare charity

OMI Architects has transformed a dilapidated library into a multipurpose scheme for a childcare charity

Colours, fixtures, fittings, tactile surfaces and braille signage offer an accessible experience delivered through high-quality workmanship.

Clifftop sustainable community hub provides educational space

Cave Cooperative's Bale House provides a sustainable educational space at Hastings nature reserve

An exercise bench on Claridge Way multi-tasks as seating and playspace.

Micro-interventions improve vital route along Thamesmead

Jan Kattein Architects collaborated with residents and schools on public realm improvements

The hand-painted ceiling mural extends over the teaching kitchen at one end of the dining room.

Hammersmith café tackles food waste, hunger and social isolation

RCKa's Nourish Hub combines a café with courses on catering and healthy eating

The building faces towards the quieter access road to Dudley Zoo, allowing it to be almost entirely naturally ventilated

Cullinan's institute of technology aims to bring jobs to Black Country

Black Country and Marches Institute of Technology brings together education and work skills

‘The aisle is full of noises’. With apologies to Shakespeare’s Tempest, here is the children’s multi-level play area. Credit Richard Chivers

Near-abandoned Portsmouth church given a community lifeline

Studio B.A.D.'s St Margaret’s Community Church combines a mix of uses from food bank to bicycle repair workshop

The plinth has a kinship with the harbour walls; Piers Taylor sees the blocks and accommodation pods as growing out of it like a new bit of town at the end of the Esplanade.

Piers Taylor adds local flavour to Watchet with East Quay community space

Commercial gain gives way to community growth

Herzog & de Meuron's M+ gallery puts Hong Kong on the cultural map

H&dM's vast museum will be seen as an attempt to define the Hong Kong's cultural role amid government clampdowns

MacEwen Award longlist puts people at the heart of architecture

MacEwen Awards longlist: The best of this year's schemes benefitting communities

MacEwen Award 2022 entries now closed

Don't miss it! Send in your nominated schemes which work for the common good

Bauman Lyons gets heritage mill back to work as Museum of Making

Derby Silk Mill, built to serve the Industrial Revolution, returns to creative life

AOC’s reworked Craft Council Gallery is tactile but not too folksy

The Crafts Council Gallery is back in action following a revamp to give it a more welcoming public space