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RCKa modular hostel for Camden Council wins approval
1/8 RCKa s Camden Road hostel - approved 2021
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RCKa has won approval to build a modular, 39-unit hostel for Camden Council in north London
The scheme in Camden Road will replace an existing hostel building, which comprised one-bedroom studios and was ‘not designed to meet the needs of families’.
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The new building will contain apartments for multiple family members, two one-bed homes and a single wheelchair accommodation on the ground floor.
A key feature will be a multipurpose terrace which, the practice says, will ‘encourage social interaction between neighbours’ and features a rear community courtyard with a garden room.
AJ Retrofit Awards 2021 winners revealed
with Pearson Lloyd has been named AJ Retrofit of the Year 2021
The conversion of a warehouse in Hackney, east London, not only found a new use for a building that faced demolition but reused as many materials as possible – both from the site and reclamation yards.
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The AJ’s Rob Wilson and Fran Williams, who chaired the various judging panels, said the winning project was ‘notable for having transformed some previously unremarkable and ramshackle commercial structures into a rather poetic and beautiful whole’.
The scheme, which also won the Workplace under 2,000m² category, was revealed as the overall winner at the AJ Retrofit Awards virtual awards event held on Wednesday 24 February.