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IF_DO . photos: © Nick Dearden

IF_DO was commissioned by the Methodist Church to design a new community centre specifically aimed at enhancing community cohesion and addressing issues of social isolation and loneliness. The new community centre, named ‘The Space,’ is located on the Elsinge Estate in north-east London. The estate, built in the 1950s, has seen little redevelopment or investment, and so this project provides a new, and much-needed piece of social infrastructure that includes gathering spaces for the community, accommodating both formal and informal events and activities. Continue reading IF_DO

IF_DO . photos: © NICK DEARDEN

At the end of a dirt road on the northern edge of the village, looking east towards the sunrise over the north sea, and with heath and woodland to the rear, the setting of Thorpeness Beach House is spectacular. That this is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is unquestionable; it feels set apart from the world, and is immediately relaxing. Continue reading IF_DO

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St Teresa’s School is an independent girls’ school located in the green belt in the Surrey Hills, an area of outstanding natural beauty. The new Sixth Form Centre is the first phase of IF_DO’s 10-year masterplan for St Teresa’s, which aims not only to improve the school’s built fabric, but also to reconnect the primary teaching areas of the site to the natural landscape around it. Continue reading IF_DO