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 [...]
Three Towers wins 2009 RIBA Award
May 21st, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
The Three Towers project in Manchester, by Union North has won an RIBA Award for the north-west region. Tim Riley, now director of RCKa, was responsible for the design and implementation of the project, completed in 2008 for developer Urban Splash.
A full list of this year’s winners is here: www.architecture.com, and more about the project here.
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 [...]
NaSBA Press Launch: Self Build as a volume housing solution
January 12th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (russellcurtis)
This morning RCKa attended the launch of NaSBA’s (National Self Build Association) publication “Self Build as a volume housing solution” which pinpoints a number of ways in which Self Build should be encouraged by central and local government as a way to alleviate the housing crisis through the current economic climate.
The report identifies that, despite [...]