Public Participation for Preston Housing Scheme
May 14th, 2010 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
We’ve been running a few public participation events over the last few weeks at which ideas for the redevelopment of the Meadow Street site in Preston were discussed.
In the first session we discussed principles of urban design with local residents, establishing important routes through and around the site itself, together with key views and responses [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Europan 10 Launched
January 20th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)The Europan 10 competition launched yesterday, with 62 sites across 19 countries – significantly down on the 73 sites that took part in Europan 9. The UK is a noticeable absentee from this year’s competition, following CABE’s failure to identify any viable sites.
RCKa were quoted in this week’s Architects’ Journal, offering advice to UK teams [...]
Redcar Seafront Competition – “Market Harbour”
September 15th, 2008 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
These images are from RCKa’s entry to the Redcar Seafront competition. The competition called for innovative ideas for the regeneration of the historic promenade at Redcar on the North Sea coast.
RCKa’s scheme included a new multi-function platform projecting out to sea, forming a space for regular markets selling local produce, an outdoor cinema screen and [...]
Europan 9 scheme featured in new CABE publication “Housing Market Renewal”
August 8th, 2008 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
CABE have published a new report “Housing market renewal: Action plan for delivering successful places” which features RCKa’s competition-winning proposal for Stoke-on-Trent.
The publication is available from CABE’s website.
Europan 9 – Stoke-on-Trent on Google Maps
February 2nd, 2008 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)We’ve added a custom map to Google Maps (link here) of our Europan 9-winning scheme.
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Europan 9 in the press
January 21st, 2008 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
We’ve had a lot of press coverage over the last few days following the announcement of the Europan 9 results. The following are links to articles in the architectural press:
Architects’ Journal
Building
Building Design
Europan 9 – Jury’s Comments
January 18th, 2008 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)The Europan 9 Jury had the following to say about our winning scheme:
The jury applauded the clarity of the diagram for this scheme, which combines the central public route down to the canal and an iconographic element in the apartment building. The terraced housing type exploits the topography of the site well, and the jury [...]