Tewkesbury Growth Hub
Details of the commercial refurbishment of Tewkesbury Borough Council’s Public Services Centre and home to ‘The Tewkesbury Growth Hub.’
Balcarras Music School
The Music School is the result of a close working collaboration between RRA, Balcarras School and Cheltenham based construction firm, Dowdeswell Estates. The scheme expanded the existing music department to deliver dedicated teaching, rehearsal & performance spaces. A key part of the design approach was to prioritise a simplicity in form, whilst integrating subtle details […]
Osterley Sports Centre
With a multi-disciplinary team identified by RRA to facilitate delivery of the project, the study looked at methods of analysis including local significance, local competition, building and sports technology analyses as well as associated costs such as fees, preliminaries and funding opportunities. Our findings demonstrated that the prospect of creating new facilities at Osterley Sports [...]
Norwood School
The terraces extend down the slope towards the entrance of the school site; a 'yellow-brick-road’ extending an invitation to the community to enter with the sense and promise of a reward inside. The roofscape is designed to emulate the canopy of the surrounding trees, acknowledging the its place in a woodland-oasis rather than trying to [...]
Bishops Cleeve – Community Project
The design maximises a site that consisted of a Listed threshing barn that had fallen into dereliction. As a result of this heritage the design makes use of the structural bays of the timber-frame, together with evoking the scale and mass of the original building. The building, clad in Western Red Cedar, uses natural materials. [...]
Charlton Kings Church
Working in close collaboration with Cheltenham Borough Council and conservation department, the end result is a successful community project within an important local conservation area. The concept of the proposal, from which the form has been developed, is based upon an ‘all embracing’ spiral, to welcome the parish into the heart of the church. The [...]
The Buttermarket – RIBA Competition Award
RRA's Buttermarket entry was designed to establish an over-arching brand identity which would work with existing market-traders, and purveyors of local Herefordshire food heritage, to manage, promote and incubate new visitors and foot fall within this historic Victorian food hall. RRA, in collaboration with the UK’s leading independant markets agent Quarterbridge, developed an exciting proposal [...]
Masterplan Holme Lacy Campus – FE College
RRA developed the masterplan for Herefordshire and Ludlow College defining a new campus facility to deliver five separate faculties within the further education college organisation.