RCKa win Preston Housing Competition
January 20th, 2010 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve won the prestigious Gateway Goes for Guild housing competition.
Run by the RIBA Competitions Office for Community Gateway Association, the competition attracted 74 entries, and the shortlist of four was announced in November last year.
Our winning scheme, comprising 14 new houses on a tight urban site to the north-east of [...]
First look at completed Highbury house extension
January 10th, 2010 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
We’ve recently completed the refurbishment of a Victorian house in Highbury, London.
Removing a substantial part of the rear of the house allowed us to create a large living room with unbroken views out to the rear garden. A dramatic, full-height storage wall, clad in zebrano timber veneer, runs the entire length of the party wall, [...]
Wells Park Youth Venue funding bid successful
January 5th, 2010 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)Our £3.5m funding bid for a new state-of-the-art youth venue in Lewisham has been successful, it has been announced by MyPlace.
RCKa, working closely with members of Lewisham’s Integrated Youth Support Service, prepared a comprehensive funding bid during the summer of 2009 which was submitted to MyPlace in September.
We will now be working closely with the [...]