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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
OPEN soon to be, well . . . open!
July 6th, 2009 by Dieter Kleiner (dieterkleiner)
We are extremely pleased to announce that Practical Completion was achieved on 3rd July 2009 for this dramatic refurbishment of a Grade II listed banking hall complex into a state-of-the art Youth Venue for the OPEN Youth Trust.
This bulging bag of brilliance includes a 450person nightclub, a 1000person live music hall, a 12m climbing wall [...]
Tim Riley appointed as Design Quality Enabler for major Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder region
July 3rd, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
Tim Riley, Director of RCKa, has been appointed as a Design Quality Enabler for the Transform South Yorkshire (www.transformsouthyorkshire.org.uk) HMR partnership.
TSY is the sub-regional housing and regeneration partnership for the South Yorkshire region. The organisation is spending around £250m on residential regeneration across Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster and Sheffield.
Crucially, TSY are placing good quality design at [...]
RCKa win planning permission for new house at appeal
July 2nd, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
RCKa have been successful in their appeal against refusal for planning permission for a new house outside Guildford.
Whilst we were not responsible for the original design of the house, we were brought in to refine the design and obtain building control approval for the new home, which employs an innovative pre-fabricated timber construction system developed [...]