London CLT is London’s first Community Land Trust established in the former psychiatric hospital of St Clements, in the Mile End area. The CLT provides affordable housing, allowing long-term residents who would be priced out to stay in the area, countering the...
The Sargfabrik, a transformed former coffin factory has been one of the most important adaptive reuse projects with an innovative housing aim. It’s a combined co-housing and social housing project, which was realized following a strong citizen-led campaign with the...
Cascina Roccafranca is a public social and cultural centre operating in a large former farm house and its courtyard on the periphery of Turin. Cascina Foundation offers a unique model of managing a public facility in cooperation with numerous citizen groups, NGOs and...
Fargfabriken is a contemporary cultural laboratory, exhibition space and event centre in a 1889 industrial building. Founded in 1995, the centre is run by a foundation that brings together the Swedish Association of Architects and private construction companies....
The Potocki Palace is a Rococo residence, the main tourist attraction in a county town called Radzyn Podlaski in Eastern Poland. The 15th-century fortress was re-designed as a Baroque residence, which received its present Rococo shape in the mid-18th century on the...
The former church complex Convento delle Cappuccinelle, situated in a very dense neighborhood of Naples historical center, was a juvenile jail until the end of the last century when it was definitively dismissed. On 2015 a local grass-roots group (“Scacco Matto” /...
