RCKa’s £3.5m new-build Youth & Community Venue in Lewisham, London, was officially opened to the public in June 2013. Funded by the last Labour government’s MyPlace scheme, the centre provides a range of vocational, leisure and support services for the young people of Lewisham.
This state-of-the-art building includes a climbing wall, training kitchen and café, multi-use games area, recording studios, health clinic, dance and performance spaces, teaching and conference rooms and an IT suite.
The project was shortlisted for the New London Architecture Awards “Best Public Building in 2013” and was the subject of a recent Building Study in Building Design Magazine, which praised the scheme as “a political and architectural triumph in equal measure”.