Community centres

NOTES: Leon Krier, architect and urban planner, was responsible for the masterplan that was developed in 1989-1993. The masterplan divides the town of Poundbury into four distinctive quarters, each quarter representing a Phase. Construction of Phase 1 commenced in October 1993 and was completed in 2002. John Simpson designed Brownsword Hall, completed in 1999, in the idiom of a traditional West Country market hall.

NOTES: Leon Krier, architect and urban planner, was responsible for the masterplan that was developed in 1989-1993. The masterplan divides the town of Poundbury into four distinctive quarters, each quarter representing a Phase. Construction of Phase 1 commenced in October 1993 and was completed in 2002. John Simpson designed Brownsword Hall, completed in 1999, in the idiom of a traditional West Country market hall.

NOTES: Leon Krier, architect and urban planner, was responsible for the masterplan that was developed in 1989-1993. The masterplan divides the town of Poundbury into four distinctive quarters, each quarter representing a Phase. Construction of Phase 1 commenced in October 1993 and was completed in 2002. John Simpson designed Brownsword Hall, completed in 1999, in the idiom of a traditional West Country market hall.

NOTES: This neighbourhood centre forms the fourth side of the Iroko Housing Co-operative (also designed by Haworth Tompkins). It forms part of the strategy by Coin Street Community Builders, established in 1984, to provide childcare, learning, enterprise support and leisure opportunities affordable to all members of the community.

NOTES: This neighbourhood centre forms the fourth side of the Iroko Housing Co-operative (also designed by Haworth Tompkins). It forms part of the strategy by Coin Street Community Builders, established in 1984, to provide childcare, learning, enterprise support and leisure opportunities affordable to all members of the community.

NOTES: Milton Keynes, which incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between, was designated a new town in 1967 and planning control was thus taken from elected local authorities and delegated to the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC). This is an example of a single-span construction using GRC (glassfibre reinforced concrete).

NOTES: Milton Keynes, which incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between, was designated a new town in 1967 and planning control was thus taken from elected local authorities and delegated to the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC).