RCKa Featured in Brick Bulletin
January 7th, 2012 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)
The Winter 2010 edition of Brick Bulletin will shortly be published, and includes a number of quotes from RCKa Director Tim Riley, as well as illustrations of some projects we are currently working which employ brick in innovative and interesting ways – including the Meadow Street Redevelopment in Preston and the Moreland Street Redevelopment in [...]
Open Eye opens
November 9th, 2011 by Tim Riley (Tim Riley)
We are delighted to announce that the Open Eye Gallery is now open to the public. We attended the opening ceremony on Friday and are very pleased with the response from those present. It was great to see the Covered Public Realm space being used and we hope that the Gallery has many other events [...]
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 [...]
TNG Wells Park Youth Venue shortlisted for NLA Awards 2011
June 15th, 2011 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)
Following new of our shortlisting in the Housing Design Awards last week, we’re delighted to announce that our design for a new world-class youth venue in Lewisham has been shortlisted for the inaugural New London Architecture Awards 2011. Peter Murray, chair of New London Architecture, “The New London Awards shortlist provides an impressive benchmark for new [...]
Meadow Street Development shortlisted for 2011 Housing Design Awards
June 2nd, 2011 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)
RCKa’s competition-winning housing development for Community Gateway Association in Preston has been shortlisted for the 2011 Housing Design Awards. Won in international design competition at the beginning of 2010, the scheme has recently been granted planning permission by Preston City Council.The winning scheme will be announced in a ceremony on 14 July 2011.
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 [...]
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. [...]
Three Towers wins 2009 RIBA Award
May 21st, 2009 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)
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 [...]
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 [...]
NaSBA Press Launch: Self Build as a volume housing solution
January 12th, 2009 by Russell Curtis (Russell Curtis)
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, [...]