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RCKa provides an innovative model for architectural practices operating in a challenging and changing civic and economic landscape. Our active and enterprising approach to enabling and securing projects of relevance to the local community is based upon critical dialogue, and was developed to satisfy the central ambition of the practice; to produce consistently high-quality pioneering and socially responsive architecture.

Formed in 2008 after winning the prestigious Europan international housing competition, RCKa quickly established itself as one of the UK’s most exciting practices. Our particular expertise in housing and community projects has led to numerous competition wins and commissions, and we have been recognised in some of the UK’s most highly-regarded awards programmes – a handful of which are listed below.

Architect of the Year Awards Social Impact Award 2020, Winner

Park House, The Granville and Ryde Nicholson

New London Awards 2019 – Winner, Community Prize

The Granville

Inside Housing Development Awards 2019 – Winner, Best Older People’s Housing Development

PegasusLife Park House

Housing Design Awards 2019 – Winner

PegasusLife Hortsley, Seaford

“PegasusLife’s vibrant reinvention of the later living category continues with this enigmatic and pioneering development in Seaford town centre, which defies initial council concerns that older people would prefer a more suburban and less central location.”

Housing Design Awards 2018 – Winner

Highgate Newtown Community Centre

“A central courtyard provides an active and high-quality public space at the heart of the site, maintaining an outdoor focal point for community activity and encouraging interaction of passers-by, residents and community centre users.”

Housing Design Awards 2017 – Shortlisted

PegasusLife Hortsley

“A diverse range of amenity spaces are provided such as; a modest public space on the High Street that provides a moment of pause; a secret garden which forms a key part of the arrival sequence providing a calm space…”

Architects’ Journal Small Projects Awards 2015 – Winner, Sustainability

Enfield Business Centre Refurbishment

“The ‘daring’ refurbishment of a business centre on Enfield high street has been crowned the most sustainable scheme in this year’s AJ Small Projects Awards.”

RIBA Journal MacEwen Award 2015 – Highly Commended

TNG Youth & Community Centre

“Community was involved from the start of The New Generation youth centre project, which has had a wide, deep impact on its users.”

Architizer A+ Awards – Typology Winner 2014

TNG Youth & Community Centre

“TNG clearly represents a particularly significant project for its architect, offering evidence not just of RCKa’s considerable design abilities but of its skills at conjuring a project from the myriad needs of a community…”

RIBA London Emerging Architect 2014 – Winner

“The judges thought that RCKa’s work on TNG Youth Centre showed considerable flair…the architects’ sensitive and extensive consultation process with both the client and prospective users of the youth centre, which contributed to the superb outcome.”

RIBA National Building Award 2014 – Winner

TNG Youth and Community Centre

“This building has many virtues. Both its brief and its design are the product of an extensive process of public consultation apparently resulting in a unanimous planning approval greeted by loud cheers from the public.”

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16-24 Underwood Street
London, N1 7JQ

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