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ACME’s Folkestone Harbour Seafront comes to market
The first of a promenade of blocks set to transform Folkestone’s seafront under a masterplan by ACME has been erected, fitted-out and marketed. Will it transform the town’s fortunes too?
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Citizens House by Archio: for the people by the people
The 11-home housing scheme, champions the community land trust model with Archio selected to design the scheme by members of the local community, writes Fran Williams. Photography French+Tye
Central Somers Town: under siege by wealth on all sides
Adam Khan Architects and Hayhurst and Co have completed a community hub and a primary/nursery school, the two buildings in Phase 1 of Camden Council’s regeneration of Central Somers Town, masterplanned by DSDHA
Leisure, sports, community and care combined
Holmes Miller’s Allander Leisure Centre in Glasgow, incorporating an adult day care centre, is a new type of leisure-cum-care model of community hub
Post-industrial renaissance: Civic House by Collective Architecture
The Glasgow practice has retrofitted a former printing works in the north of the city into a co-working hub, events space and canteen for Agile City
vPPR’s Camden Market Canopy
vPPR Architects has created a playful new venue perched on the elevated former railway goods yard alongside Camden Market’s Grade II*-listed Horse Hospital
Gilbert & George Centre: a shrine to themselves
SIRS Architects has converted a former brewery off London’s Brick Lane into a three-gallery centre dedicated to the work of the distinctive East End-based artists
Evoking the spirit of White Eagle: James Gorst’s pared-back Hampshire temple
James Gorst Architects has created a striking new temple for the esoteric White Eagle Lodge spiritual organisation, marrying Byzantine forms with sustainable building design
Welcome to Worthing: Bayside by Allies and Morrison
The mixed-use scheme is a striking addition to the seafront, designed to act as a gateway to the West Sussex coastal town
Deeper learning: Hall McKnight transforms disused basement for King’s College London
The Quadrangle project turns a disused double basement at King’s College London on the Strand into a modern engineering department