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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
Tag: community land trusts
The coronavirus pandemic offers a testing bed for engaging communities online
By using this time to create new digital approaches, we can broaden our outreach to the evolved communities of the future, says Archio’s Kate Ridgway
Khan accused of ‘watering down’ community-led housing project
London mayor Sadiq Khan has been accused of ‘watering down’ the aims of a north London housing project that was billed as setting a precedent for exemplary community-led development
What would Labour’s land reform proposals mean for architects?
Land for the Many, a new report to the Labour Party published this month, puts forward the most radical re-imagination of land ownership proposals for a generation, writes architect Mark Rowe
Assemble’s Turner Prize-winning Granby winter garden opens
Assemble and Granby 4 Streets Community Land Trust have converted two derelict houses into a new shared space
Levitt Bernstein wins London housing scheme through public ballot
Levitt Bernstein has become the latest practice in London selected to design a Community Land Trust (CLT) housing scheme via a public ballot
Weekend roundup: No Midas touch at Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower?
Simon Aldous’s take on the big architectural stories of the week: Twentieth Century Society slams Studio Egret West’s Balfron refurb • Hull College axes architecture courses • MIPIM vs community land trusts
Vote for your architect: The new way to win work
Community land trusts are an increasingly popular development model that can include residents’ ballots to select a designer. Ella Jessel looks at how architects are delivering bottom-up projects in the first in a series of reports on new ways of working
Architects are breaking the mould and finding new ways to win work
In these exciting – if tricky – times, practices are finding new and ingenious ways of working and connecting with clients, writes Emily Booth