MacEwen 2022 winners and commended

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

Knight Architects’ ‘beautiful and resilient’ bridge, with its unique structural solution, has reconnected the Ullswater community.

Knight Architects' replacement bridge reconnects Lake District community

40m-span structure replaces the structure that gave the town of Pooley Bridge its name

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

DSDHA theatre redevelopment creates street presence

DSDHA has radically improved the theatre's accessibility while minimising environmental impact

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

National youth theatre

MacEwen Award shortlist shows how inventive architecture helps

Twelve projects across the UK show how architects are doing the common good

MacEwen Award longlist puts people at the heart of architecture

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

MacEwen 2021 winners and commended

Hackney School of Food wins MacEwen Award 2021

Surman Weston helps brings food knowledge to the inner city

Flourishing Granby Winter Garden commended in MacEwen Award

Community drive brought to blooming life in Liverpool

Belper’s sweet streetscape commended in MacEwen Award

Regeneration and community facilites in one scheme

Tube's heat loss becomes neighbourhood's – and London's – energy gain

Pioneering local energy centre harnesses waste heat to provide greener, cheaper power

MacEwen judges prize schemes that give the most to the most

Community, education and revitalisation themes hold sway

MacEwen 2021 shortlist

Small contributions add up to huge impact at St John’s music pavilion

Energy and entrepreneurialism deliver the goods

East London’s Genesis chapel floats out to find its flock

‘Clever reimagining of how the church works in the community’

Historic ironmonger comes back to life as community hub

Community centre born out of Treadgolds’ rich remaining works

Bunhill 2 recycles energy in a lacy pink coat

Plant reuses Tube’s heat to make local power

Winter Garden keeps Granby4Streets scheme blooming

Winter garden is latest addition to community initiative

Ada Belfield Centre mixes library and care home in once-derelict sweet factory

Former Thornton's factory regenerated as civic amenity

Restored Rectory Lane Cemetery is place of ‘inspiration and reflection’

Conservation and innovative design at restored cemetery

Reassuringly familiar style helps The Nook to MacEwen shortlist

Friendly ambience and domestic scale make children's hospice welcoming

Passivhoos brings sustainable homes to social renters in Scotland

The benefits of Passivhaus design made affordable

Saltholme Pools Hide gets the light and views twitchers need

Central drum extends views at retrofitted bird hide

Hackney School of Food teaches how to grow, cook and value food

Timely initiative to provide food education to schoolchildren

Tailoring academy revives local industry

Traditional skills nurtured anew and harnessed to make Covid masks

MacEwen 2021: 21 schemes that improve people's lives in different ways

Longlist celebrates places that nurture communities and the world they live in

MacEwen 2021 longlist: Community endeavours

Schemes done on a budget and targetting improvement for local communities

MacEwen 2021 longlist: Education initiatives

Better ways to learning to make music, sew and cook and nurture for early years

MacEwen 2021 longlist: Support structures

A children's hospice, village for dementia sufferers and research centre for Great Ormond St

MacEwen longlist 2021: Urban and rural revitalisation

Social adhesion, strong communities and protecting the environment

MacEwen 2021 longlist: New approaches to housing

Social-rent Passivhaus and self-build schemes