YAYA Shortlist Talks
November 9th, 2011 by Tim Riley (Tim Riley)Last night Dieter and I presented our approach and ideas plus a couple of projects at the Architecture Foundation. It was great to be part of such an informal presentation and discussions and some interesting issues were raised. These included the diverse nature of approaches and the influence of our architectural education but the main [...]
Application made for Meadow Street
November 25th, 2010 by Tim Riley (Tim Riley)
We are pleased to announce that our planning application has been made for Meadow Street, Preston. The proposals have been amended following consultation with The Planning Department, Places Matter and the local community and the original vision and urban design response are broadly similar to the competition winning scheme. We are pleased to report that [...]
Meadow Street Proposals presented to Places Matter
November 5th, 2010 by Tim Riley (Tim Riley)On 22nd October 2010, our proposals for Meadow Street, Preston were presented to Places Matter at the RIBA NW offices in Liverpool for a peer review. The review was particularly constructive as we were able to have a positive and critical dialogue about the our proposals. This service was provided free of charge and we [...]
Public Participation for Preston Housing Scheme
May 14th, 2010 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)
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 [...]
A tour of Preston
March 25th, 2010 by Tim Riley (Tim Riley)Last week, we took the opportunity of spending a few hours in Preton to familiarise ourselves with the city and we uncovered an amazing and surprising number of architectural gems within the city’s eclectic landscape. We started our day next to the site of the proposed housing development on St Ignatius’ Square It is an [...]
A Brief History of Preston’s Guild
February 25th, 2010 by Tim Riley (Tim Riley)After winning the ‘Gateway goes for Guild’ competition, we took the opportunity to find out a little more about Preston’s Guild. It is a unique event that occurs every 20 years in the city. Its roots are in the historical business groups that conferred the right to trade in Preston upon only selected businessmen and [...]
RCKa win Preston Housing Competition
January 20th, 2010 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)
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 [...]
RCKa Shortlisted for Preston International Design Competition
November 19th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)
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 [...]
Paper City: Urban Utopias Exhibition at the Royal Academy
October 2nd, 2009 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)
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. [...]
Europan 10 Launched
January 20th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)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 [...]