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AJ Climate Champions podcast: 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
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Commons people: IF_DO creates community hub for Hastings
The transformation of Hastings’ Observer Building into a vibrant community hub is a welcome counter to the wave of gentrification seen in the seaside town, says Ellen Peirson. Photography by Kilian O’Sullivan
IF_DO to revive ‘truly ugly’ Hastings house for co-designed youth centre
IF_DO has been handed planning permission to turn a dilapidated 1860s building in Hastings into a youth and community centre
IF_DO wins approval for limestone and oak Suffolk house
IF_DO Architects has won planning consent for a new-build house in east Suffolk with a limestone and oak structural frame
IF_DO transforms listed Suffolk barn into gallery
The conversion features a series of interventions that are mostly free-standing, demountable and reversible to facilitate minimal impact on the building
IF_DO and Lakwena unwrap Brent Cross substation artwork
Architect IF_DO, working with London-based artist Lakwena, has created a multicoloured, permanent public artwork wrapped around a new electrical substation next to London’s A406 North Circular Road
IF_DO completes demountable ‘incubator’ space in Rotherhithe
The Hithe is a low-cost, demountable business hub, built on a redundant site for social enterprise company Meanwhile Space
IF_DO completes brick and oak-clad Suffolk beach house
The design of IF_DO’s new 320m² beach house in Thorpeness, which sits within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is intended to connect it to the surrounding landscape while offering first-floor views out to sea
IF_DO wins planning for Tottenham community hub
IF_DO has won permission to convert a Tottenham building, which was formerly the entrance to a 19th-century brewery, into a new community hub
Works starts on IF_DO’s £400k pop-up Southwark business hub
Works has started on a £400,000 temporary and demountable business incubator centre in Southwark designed by AJ 40 Under 40 practice IF_DO