Author: cvc_admin
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Rainham ROYALS Youth Centre
civic have completed the refurbishment and extension of the existing Rainham ROYALS Youth Centre for Havering Council and Design for London. The most recognisable part of the scheme is the new enterprise space, which occupies the front part of the new floor and cantilevers over the existing entrance. This overhang engages the new extension with the […]
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Gamlingay Eco Hub Community Centre
The Gamlingay Community Centre is the first community centre in the country to incorporate three different passive technologies without fossil fuel backup, including photovoltaics to produce electricity and solar water heaters and a ground source heat array to provide heating and hot water. The building provides the sort of facilities small communities aspire to, including a […]
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Becketts Atelier
Becketts Atelier is a new re-furbished house in the woods, remodeled from an old timber-framed studio positioned on the edge of the Greenbelt in Surrey. The new building serves as an addition to a main five bedroom dwelling in over three acres of Bluebells and woodland, a stunningly modernist house in an area of ‘Arts […]
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Tidworth Community Resource Centre
Tidworth Development Trust had the idea to build a community resource center after conversations with their Management Committee concluded that… ‘there is no community heart in Tidworth, there’s nothing for the whole community.’ The new Community Resource Centre was seen as an opportunity to create a community heart for Tidworth that was run wholly for the benefit of local people. […]
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Duxford Community Hub
civic has been working closely with the wider community of Duxford to develop designs for its first significant public building in many years. Duxford is a rurally isolated, medium sized village which has no community facility at all. The village is experiencing an incremental withdrawal of core services and is now embracing the ethos of […]
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Home Page Quote
We are absolutely delighted to have won an RIBA East Regional Award for the Gamlingay EcoHub, and a special additional award for Community Architecture. The original refurbishment won an Environmental Excellence Award at the Architect of the Year Awards in 2012. We have just completed the project with a new youth wing and extensive landscaping, fulfilling […]
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Press and Awards Quote
civic have been fortunate to win several awards for our community engaged architecture and public art projects. We contribute to journals and research papers and have posted a selection of articles and awards in these pages to reflect the range of our interests and activities.
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Public Art Quote
civic have developed a portfolio of projects that represent community participation in public arts projects. Andy leads the arts projects and has built on a strong background of collaborative arts practise coupled with his particular skills as an illustrator and visual artist. Many of our public art projects involve widespread community engagement during the creative brief […]
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Housing Quote
civic are actively developing a range of residential projects – all of which are carefully and sensitively designed to reflect the client’s needs and ambitions. We have completed a variety of extensions and conversions and are expanding a portfolio of projects that engage with larger scale residential developments and their associated public spaces. Our Arsenal Green Space […]
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Public Building Quote
We bring a wealth of knowledge to community projects through our experiences in stakeholder engagement and in particular our explicit knowledge of how to assemble community centres as adaptable, responsive and income generating civic buildings. We were awarded BD’s Architect of the Year Award for Environmental Excellence in 2012, and two RIBA Awards for our […]