RCKa featured in Innovate Offsite Magazine
February 28th, 2010 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
Our use of Modern Methods of Construction in residential design has featured in “Innovate Offsite” magazine, which will be available at the MTech Consult stand during EcoBuild 2010. This article continues our theme of designing site-specific, contemporary housing using innovative methods of construction we previously explored in Offsite Construction magazine, where we looked at the [...]
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, [...]
RCKa Shortlisted for Preston International Design Competition
November 19th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
We’ve been shortlisted for our entry in the Gateway Goes for Guild international design competition. Four teams have made it through to the final round from 74 submissions.
Our proposal provides a range of house types, including eight four-bed, four three-bed houses and two bungalows on a tight urban site close to a sensitive conservation area. [...]
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.
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 [...]
RCKa consulting on new Youth Venue, south-east London
September 14th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
RCKa have been undertaking a series of public consultations as part of a funding bid for a new Youth Venue in Lewisham. We’ve been talking to the young people of Lewisham to find out what facilities and services they would like to see in a new Youth Venue.
These consultations have included a design workshop held [...]
Muswell Hill extension granted planning permission
August 13th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)Our proposed extension to a large residential property in Muswell Hill has been granted planning permission by Haringey Council.
The extension reconfigures and extends an existing kitchen to provide a new dining room which opens on to the garden, and a new bathroom. The striking form of the extension clearly distinguishes the new addition from the [...]