RCKa completes funding bid for new London Youth Venue
October 28th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
RCKa have recently completed a funding bid for a new Youth Venue in London.
The proposal includes a range of exciting activities for young people as well as education, support and health services providing much-needed facilities to a deprived area of the city.
The scheme includes an external Multi-Use Games Area, skateboard park and climbing wall, as [...]
First View of Hampstead House Extension
October 22nd, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
We’re developing plans for a new extension to a private house in Hampstead.
The proposed extension will provide an enhanced relationship between the existing house and it’s rear garden, with an interesting folded roof-form creating dramatic internal spaces, the lifted corners of the extension allowing daylight into the depth of the plan.
The works to the house [...]
RCKa is hiring
October 14th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)We’re looking for a talented, motivated post-Part 1 architectural assistant to help us with a range of new and ongoing projects, including private and social residential, youth and community centres and mixed-use developments.
Open Eye Gallery wall
October 8th, 2009 by Tim Riley (timriley)The wall enclosure of the open eye gallery is deferential to the angular forms of the adjacent buildings and integrates well weaving around the columns and addressing the covered public realm. The wall provides much needed enclosure to the gallery spaces with controlled views through it to provide important visual permeability through this important corner [...]
Paper City: Urban Utopias Exhibition at the Royal Academy
October 2nd, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
The Royal Academy of Arts have been running an exhibition called “Paper City: Urban Utopias” featuring a collection of sketches and illustrations which have featured on the back pages of Blueprint in recent years. The exhibition includes a montage of Europan 9 schemes by Alex Mowat of Urban Salon – including our City Slipway design for Stoke-on-Trent.
The [...]