A vital community garden offering a model for maximum good for communities and for the environment on a small urban plot. It is now a site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation. Winner of an Open City Stewardship Award 2021.

muf architecture/art, EXYZT, J & L Gibbons, 2010

Bradbury Works in Gillett Square, Dalston, has re-opened its doors. The new award winning building includes the refurbishment of 600m2 of existing affordable workspace, the replacement of ten mini retail units, and the provision of almost 500m2 of extra workspace in a two-storey extension. Bradbury Works is the next step in the evolving unique story of this community focused public space.

Alex Smith of Y/N Studio, 2022

Grade II listed Art Deco cinema with stalls and circle created in 1937 within the shell of an Edwardian cinema, retaining many original features. In 2017 a new auditorium was created in the basement space.

F E Bromige, 1937

Our story begins in 1841. Richard Benyon pays for a church in West Hackney “to enhance the character and add lustre to the new estate” of De Beauvoir Town. St Peter’s is built in the ‘Gothic Revival’ style and later extended as part of catholic movement in the Church of England. St Peter’s continues. We’re excited to write the next chapter of our life!

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Modernist extension to Hackney's German Hospital, closed 1987 and converted into flats in 1999.

Burnet, Tait and Lorne, 1935

Flexible use garden room in a newly established garden.

Knott Architects, 2022

Grade II* listed old church building designed by Sir Charles Barry, 1826 built as one of the million churches scheme. Redundant in 1980's then rebuilt with st pauls steiner occupancy from 1993 and now a full school since 1995, which steiner architechtural influence and the gothic style original, pews turned into classrooms mainly by volunteers and workshops to gain experience. Still unfinished.

Sir Charles Barry, 1826

VATRAA's fibre-reinforced concrete extension to a Victorian house in London Fields is a project about materials, light and views. On the inside, the rough concrete floor, bench and worktop are balanced by oak and a jute fabric inspired by the client's art collection. On the outside, a fibre-reinforced external leaf reduced the concrete amount by 40% compared to a regular steel reinforcement.

VATRAA, 2024

Early 20th C Grade II* listed church designed by CH Reilly. Byzantine in structure but prefiguring Modernism in its aesthetic, Nairn judged it “the best church of its date in London”, Reilly “the building I should like to be remembered by”.

Charles Herbert Reilly, 1910

Gubns partners with Of Architecture to host a pop-up exhibition entitled Beyond Blueprints, comprising artworks crafted by architect-makers.

Studio Partington, 2012

A rare example of a large purpose built metropolitan working men’s club with over 100 years of history. A once dignified building, revival Queen Anne style in the late-Victorian period, Grade II listed in 2019.

Alfred Allen, 1900