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Paper City: Urban Utopias Exhibition at the Royal Academy

russellcurtis — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:38:34 +0000

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 exhibition runs until the 27th of October.

Europan 9 – Stoke-on-Trent on Google Maps

russellcurtis — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:44:43 +0000

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

russellcurtis — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:23:20 +0000

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

russellcurtis — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:45:09 +0000

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 welcomed this project’s overall confidence and ambition, noting that the primary moves of the design are sufficiently strong to shine through the complexities of developing the project into a realisable scheme.
The jury felt, along with the city, that the project proposes a vision to aspire to for the quality inner-city family living that the City Waterside development requires. The residential tower was seen as a good solution to attracting a younger population, and this kind of accommodation with panoramic views is a rarity in Stoke-on-Trent.

RCKa win Europan 9

russellcurtis — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:00:18 +0000

It was announced on Wednesday night that RCKa have won the Europan 9 competition for their entry “City Slipway”. The award ceremony was held at New London Architecture at the Building Centre in central London.

The successful entries for each of the three sites (Stoke-on-Trent, Milton Keynes and Sheffield) form part of the “Competitions Work” exhibition which runs until 14th February 2008.