BuildingsWomen’s rehabilitation centre Hope Street wins 2024 MacEwen Award‘Architecture that is healing people’: Hope Street in Southampton is a generous and visionary scheme by Snug Architects that almost had one of the judges in tears30 January 2024
BuildingsAqueduct Cottage, a ruin that lives again, wins special mention, MacEwen Award 2024‘Really passionate people’ volunteered to help rescue historic ruin
BuildingsMacEwen Award 2024 highly commended: HAT Projects’ Sunspot rejuvenates Jaywick SandsHolistic approach revives life and belief at neglected Jaywick Sands
BuildingsMacEwen Award 2024 highly commended: Citizens House, Lewisham, keeps people closer to homeArchio’s robust details squeeze the most from a tight budget
BuildingsMacEwen 2024, highly commended: St James’ Community Farm unites communitiesMMAS balances cost and aesthetics to draw in all-comers at inner-city farm
BuildingsMacEwen Award 2024: The winning schemesDiverse exemplars of architecture for the common good
BuildingsMacEwen Award 2024 shortlistThirteen impressive and varied schemes make up the contenders for the top award
BuildingsMacEwen Award 2024 longlist: 32 exemplars of architecture for the common goodThe longlisted schemes range from urban renewal and social enterprise to education and affordable housing
BuildingsLocals plunge in to rescue Jubilee Pool – and win it the 2023 MacEwen AwardSustainability, heritage, grassroots action and social benefit in one scheme
BuildingsMacEwen Award 2023 high commendation: Wraxall Yard gives the countryside holiday to everyoneAccessible holiday homes with sustainable style
BuildingsMacEwen Award 2023 commended: Wash your Words adds books to choresPractical and social facilities meet in a library and launderette
BuildingsMacEwen Award special mention: Big local buy-in is key to East Quay’s successTransformative community project, Watchet, Somerset
BuildingsMacEwen Award 2023 shortlist announcedTwelve inspiring projects reach the penultimate round of this year's award
BuildingsMacEwen Award winner: Nourish Hub’s communal effort is recipe for successRCKa joined a collaboration to tackle multiple needs
BuildingsAccess, support and social benefit shine in MacEwen Award entriesArchitects demonstrate will to give access and support to all
BuildingsMacEwen-commended church broadens community reachMacEwen Award commends church adapted by Studio B.A.D. to modern needs
BuildingsA Common Plan to help people walk, rest and playMacEwen Award commends Jan Kattein Architects’ revitalisation of a Thamesmead walkway
BuildingsBlack Country’s shiny new route to work commended in MacEwen AwardCullinan Studio's technical institute will train and place locals in careers
BuildingsKnight Architects' replacement bridge reconnects Lake District community40m-span structure replaces the structure that gave the town of Pooley Bridge its name
BuildingsBristol youth centre gives its users authorship of the spaceAskew Cavanna Architects' redesign of a community centre for black-led charity Full Circle@Docklands
BuildingsBristol modular housing factory offers jobs and trainingAlex Dutton / SNUG Homes' Lockleaze factory is in one of the city's most deprived neighbourhoods
BuildingsPop-up creative hub provides meanwhile use for Enfield shopping centreDallas-Pierce-Quintero's Culture Palace demonstrates the importance of arts in the recovery of the high street
BuildingsAHMM bereavement centre provides support in sensitive environmentAHMM's Alder Centre provides support for bereaved individuals after the death of a child
BuildingsDSDHA theatre redevelopment creates street presenceDSDHA has radically improved the theatre's accessibility while minimising environmental impact
BuildingsDerelict Liverpool library remodelled for childcare charityOMI Architects has transformed a dilapidated library into a multipurpose scheme for a childcare charity
BuildingsClifftop sustainable community hub provides educational spaceCave Cooperative's Bale House provides a sustainable educational space at Hastings nature reserve
BuildingsMicro-interventions improve vital route along ThamesmeadJan Kattein Architects collaborated with residents and schools on public realm improvements
BuildingsHammersmith café tackles food waste, hunger and social isolationRCKa's Nourish Hub combines a café with courses on catering and healthy eating
BuildingsCullinan's institute of technology aims to bring jobs to Black CountryBlack Country and Marches Institute of Technology brings together education and work skills
BuildingsNear-abandoned Portsmouth church given a community lifelineStudio B.A.D.'s St Margaret’s Community Church combines a mix of uses from food bank to bicycle repair workshop
BuildingsMacEwen Award shortlist shows how inventive architecture helpsTwelve projects across the UK show how architects are doing the common good
BuildingsMacEwen Award longlist puts people at the heart of architectureMacEwen Awards longlist: The best of this year's schemes benefitting communities
BuildingsHackney School of Food wins MacEwen Award 2021Surman Weston helps brings food knowledge to the inner city
BuildingsFlourishing Granby Winter Garden commended in MacEwen AwardCommunity drive brought to blooming life in Liverpool
BuildingsBelper’s sweet streetscape commended in MacEwen AwardRegeneration and community facilites in one scheme
BuildingsTube's heat loss becomes neighbourhood's – and London's – energy gainPioneering local energy centre harnesses waste heat to provide greener, cheaper power
BuildingsMacEwen judges prize schemes that give the most to the mostCommunity, education and revitalisation themes hold sway
BuildingsSmall contributions add up to huge impact at St John’s music pavilionEnergy and entrepreneurialism deliver the goods
BuildingsEast London’s Genesis chapel floats out to find its flock‘Clever reimagining of how the church works in the community’
BuildingsHistoric ironmonger comes back to life as community hubCommunity centre born out of Treadgolds’ rich remaining works
BuildingsWinter Garden keeps Granby4Streets scheme bloomingWinter garden is latest addition to community initiative
BuildingsAda Belfield Centre mixes library and care home in once-derelict sweet factoryFormer Thornton's factory regenerated as civic amenity
BuildingsRestored Rectory Lane Cemetery is place of ‘inspiration and reflection’Conservation and innovative design at restored cemetery
BuildingsReassuringly familiar style helps The Nook to MacEwen shortlistFriendly ambience and domestic scale make children's hospice welcoming
BuildingsPassivhoos brings sustainable homes to social renters in ScotlandThe benefits of Passivhaus design made affordable
BuildingsSaltholme Pools Hide gets the light and views twitchers needCentral drum extends views at retrofitted bird hide
BuildingsHackney School of Food teaches how to grow, cook and value foodTimely initiative to provide food education to schoolchildren
BuildingsTailoring academy revives local industryTraditional skills nurtured anew and harnessed to make Covid masks
BuildingsMacEwen 2021: 21 schemes that improve people's lives in different waysLonglist celebrates places that nurture communities and the world they live in
MacEwen AwardsMacEwen 2021 longlist: Community endeavoursSchemes done on a budget and targetting improvement for local communities
MacEwen AwardsMacEwen 2021 longlist: Education initiativesBetter ways to learning to make music, sew and cook and nurture for early years
MacEwen AwardsMacEwen 2021 longlist: Support structuresA children's hospice, village for dementia sufferers and research centre for Great Ormond St
MacEwen AwardsMacEwen longlist 2021: Urban and rural revitalisationSocial adhesion, strong communities and protecting the environment
MacEwen AwardsMacEwen 2021 longlist: New approaches to housingSocial-rent Passivhaus and self-build schemes