AJ Climate Champions: How Retrofit Can Enhance Creativity
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli, associate director and project lead on the London School of Economics’ Firoz Lalji Global Hub (FLGH), explains how each building element requires one-to-one conversations to determine the best reuse, and that the contractor must be on the same journey.
AJ Climate Champions: IF_DO’s Sarah Castle
IF_DO founder Sarah Castle explains that community engagement is not just asking people what they want but also what they can do, and discusses the refurbishment of the grand 1924 Observer Building, which had suffered more than three decades of neglect and a dozen owners when IF_DO took on the project.
AJ Climate Champions: ‘Even a small practice can push the boundaries of reuse’
Thom Brisco of Brisco Loran talks about Costa’s Barbers, a live-work shopfront which triumphed in the Project under £500,000 category at the AJ Architecture Awards. In this episode, Brisco describes the conversion of a former barbers in Battersea High Street for Arrant Industries into a home/office for himself and his partner Pandora Loran.
AJ Climate Champions: WeCanMake’s Melissa Mean
Melissa Mean from community land trust WeCanMake explains how a community-led approach in Bristol is tackling the housing crisis
CIVIC SQUARE, Birmingham
CIVIC SQUARE is a Birmingham-based Community Interest Company demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social, ecological, economic and climate transition.
Retrofit Balsall Heath, Birmingham
Retrofit Balsall Heath (RBH) is a Community Benefit Society and a bold, resident-led movement reshaping our neighbourhood from the ground up.
WeCanMake, Bristol
WeCanMake is a community land trust and neighbourhood test-space in Bristol, imagining and making new ways to create homes that build social infrastructure and community wealth.
Planet Cheltenham, Cheltenham
Planet Cheltenham is a community-led climate action network and Vision 21 initiative based in Cheltenham, bringing together residents, businesses, schools and local organisations to accelerate the town’s response to the climate and ecological emergency.
Portland Inn Project, Stoke on Trent
The Portland Inn Project CIC (PIPCIC) is a creative arts project for a community in Stoke On Trent with an aim to achieve community cohesion, economic, social and cultural development by involving the community in development of a pioneering community space, cultural hub and social enterprise.
East Marsh United, Grimsby
East Marsh United (EMU) founded East Marsh Community, the Community Benefit Society that operates as an ethical landlord. Working in partnership with EMU (now a CIO), it provides wraparound support to tenants and residents.