RCKa architects
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RCKa is a people-focused practice of architects, designers and policy makers. Our mission is to enhance the lives of 250,000 people by 2030.
We're delighted to announce that HNCC has been shortlisted for the 2025 Brick Awards in the "Public" category. The palette of brickwork and pre-cast concrete recall the varied character of the local area, with playful elements responding to views into the site.
Highgate Newtown Community Centre - BDA
Brick Awards 2025 - Shortlisted. The redevelopment of Highgate Newtown Community Centre, within the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area of Camden, is transformative for many people.
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June 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
We're delighted to announce that HNCC has been shortlisted for the 2025 Brick Awards in the "Public" category. The palette of brickwork and pre-cast concrete recall the varied character of the local area, with playful elements responding to views into the site.
RCKa's collaboration with contractor Wates Group and modular specialist Rollalong is covered in Architecture Today, where director @russellcurtis.com sets out ways in which meanwhile use housing could help address the temporary accommodation crisis.
Dispatches from Store Street: Russell Curtis - Architecture Today
AT talks to… director at RCKa, Russell Curtis, about his practice's modular concept that looks to use meanwhile sites for those looking for temporary housing.
buff.ly
February 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
RCKa's collaboration with contractor Wates Group and modular specialist Rollalong is covered in Architecture Today, where director @russellcurtis.com sets out ways in which meanwhile use housing could help address the temporary accommodation crisis.
Since we installed our £100k MMC prototype last Friday, London boroughs have spent £28m on housing families in temporary accommodation. 280 of these homes could have been built for the same money that councils spent this week on TA: 1,000 people could now have a warm, comfortable place to live.
February 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Since we installed our £100k MMC prototype last Friday, London boroughs have spent £28m on housing families in temporary accommodation. 280 of these homes could have been built for the same money that councils spent this week on TA: 1,000 people could now have a warm, comfortable place to live.
"It’s a fat-thin, heavy-light, orderly-informal, messy-coherent, serious-playful sort of place".
@rowanmoore.bsky.social has written a delightful Guardian review of HNCC—a new mixed-use community, residential and public realm project we've recently completed for Camden Council.
@rowanmoore.bsky.social has written a delightful Guardian review of HNCC—a new mixed-use community, residential and public realm project we've recently completed for Camden Council.
Highgate Newtown Community Centre review – if you’re looking for design that humanises, here it is
An old Territorial Army drill hall has been transformed into an inspiring mixed-used development for local people that’s more than the sum of its parts
buff.ly
February 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"It’s a fat-thin, heavy-light, orderly-informal, messy-coherent, serious-playful sort of place".
@rowanmoore.bsky.social has written a delightful Guardian review of HNCC—a new mixed-use community, residential and public realm project we've recently completed for Camden Council.
@rowanmoore.bsky.social has written a delightful Guardian review of HNCC—a new mixed-use community, residential and public realm project we've recently completed for Camden Council.