Brixton news

Physiotherapy patients are being offered treatment in leisure centres thanks to a tie-up between London hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’s and local operators, with the ... More

Coopah, an AI-enabled community-focused training app for runners, has just completed its first RunStart Academy. The new eight-week coaching course was designed to gift the ... More

Counterspace have been chosen to design the Serpentine Pavilion for 2020 with a design based on gathering spaces and community places around London that will ... More

VisitEngland is looking to provide domestic tourism a boost through a campaign inspiring young Brits to take short breaks at home in England. At the ... More

A £200,000 (US$252,605, €221,270) cash injection from the UK Government to Black Cultural Archives (BCA) in Brixton, London, is intended to buy time for the ... More

Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from the Serpentine Pavilion’s next architect to the world’s first ‘bird airport’. Monday ... More

The extraordinary life and career of music icon David Bowie could be marked with a gravity-defying lightning bolt sculpture in the London district where he ... More

Leisure operator Greenwich Leisure Ltd (GLL) has signed a deal with Disability Sports Coach (DSC) to improve disability provision by creating community clubs. The clubs ... More

Plans for a new elevated urban park in London along an abandoned coal railway line, have advanced, with architects Adams & Sutherland selected to launch ... More

Three high-profile projects designed by London-based architecture studio Caruso St John have been opened in the space of just two weeks. Two private art galleries ... More

The personal art collection of British artist Damien Hirst is set to go on display in May 2015, when a new gallery opens in Vauxhall, ... More

A new £7m (US$11.9m, €8.8m) development in Brixton, south London – supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) – has opened today (24 July) in ... More

Streatham’s new multi-million pound ice and leisure centre, which will replace the Streatham ice rink that closed in 2011, is set to open on 18 ... More

The Serpentine Sackler Gallery, a £14.5m arts and gallery space designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, has opened in London. The Sackler is Hadid’s first permanent ... More

Work has started on the first of London's 'pocket parks', which have received £2m of funding to transform neglected urban spaces into mini oases. Twenty-seven ... More

More than 500 over 55-year-olds took part in the 2012 Better Club Games, held at Brixton Recreation Centre on Friday 19 October 2012. The 'mini ... More

Netherlands-based De Boer Structures has transformed a former multi-storey car park in Brixton, south London, with its first semi-permanent ice skating arena. The company's commercial ... More

Leisure projects have missed out on the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize 2011 after London's Evelyn Grace Academy picked up this year's ... More

Plans to create a new multi-million pound black history and cultural centre in Brixton, London, have been boosted by the award of more than £5m ... More

A number of key heritage projects in London have received confirmed Heritage Lottery Fund grants worth a total of £4.4m. Covering seven of the capital's ... More

A new SHOKK facility has opened to the public at a youth centre in Brixton, south London, as the result of a partnership between the ... More

A major centre for black history and culture will be created in Brixton, London, after a receiving a £4m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund ... More