Agile City
8 July 2024

Making Good with Agile City’s Food Waste

At Agile City CIC we have a unique combination of tenants who feed into our yearly waste in different ways. Consider how a coworker might bin a crisp packet or some paper, a chef in the Canteen might bin food waste and coffee grounds, or someone hiring the venue might be binning cardboard and empty […]

City Making Sustainability
8 July 2024

Case Study: Agile City’s Small-Scale Power Stations

The retrofit of Civic House, a former printworks, has created a hub of activity that brings new life to a neglected corner of Glasgow in the form of small-scale power stations ‒ generating over twice as much electricity as the company consumes over the course of a year. The project is an exemplar for the […]

City Making Sustainability
Drone image of Civic House (2023)
14 October 2022

Civic House History: 1926 General Strike

Exploring the role our building played in the 1926 UK General Strike.

Non-striking transport industry workers try to reset an overturned Glasgow bus during a General Strike demonstration
15 July 2017

NDSM: Self-Made City

This former shipyard and wharf in Amsterdam is a prominent example of cultural regeneration.

Architecture City Making
4 May 2017

Hackney Wick and Fish Island

The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games kickstarted the largest regeneration site in Europe.

Architecture City Making
27 April 2017

Interview: Jude Barber

Director at the cooperative Collective Architecture, where all employees own an equal share in the company.

Architecture
17 April 2017

Westergasfabriek

Cultural regeneration of a disused gas factory complex in Amsterdam.

Architecture City Making
1 February 2017

Les Machines de l’Île de Nantes

This former shipyard is now an open public space honouring the memory of Jules Vernes.

Architecture City Making
16 January 2017

Les Grands Voisins

A former Parisian hospital becomes a new temporary Eco-Housing district.

Architecture City Making
11 January 2017

Le Quartier des Spectacles

Cultural regeneration of Montreal's former Red Light district as an entertainment block.

Architecture City Making
Martine Doyon, Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles