Aerial view shows Kings Square progress

Work on GKA’s sculptural redesign of Gloucester’s Kings Square continues, with new aerial photos showing a birds eye view of the site. A number of the stones that make up the sculptural edge of the square have been laid, hinting at the flowing stone landscape that will define the space.

GKA’s work featured in new Phaidon book

The Sousse and Bardo Memorial has been included in a new book published by Phaidon called In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials. The book features sixty of the most important memorials of our time, ranging from Peter Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Berlin to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York. The book was written by Spencer Bailey, with a foreward from Sir David Adjaye.
The Sousse and Bardo Memorial is located in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham and was created to honour the 31 British nationals who died, and those affected by the 2015 terror attacks in Tunisia.

Unit 3 takes a trip to Woodchester Mansion

George King has begun his fourth year of teaching at the University of Greenwich. George leads the Unit 3 undergraduate studio with his former ZHA colleague Alex Bilton. The unit brief this year is titled ‘The Geography of Thought’ and will focus on the current shift in our relationships with cities and how we live work and connect with them. The year kicked off with a talk from the Director of Education at the Guggenhiem, New York who walked students through Rem Koolhaas’s current Countryside exhibition.
Following on from this the students all travelled to the countryside for  a site visit at Woodchester Mansion,  an unfinished Gothic revival mansion house in Woodchester, Gloucestershire. The 16 students were given a tour of the mansion by archivist Liz Davenport and had some hands on experience of stone masonry.
In the second half the year students will focus once again on the city, endeavouring to develop a new form of architecture that combines the best parts of the city and countryside.

Reading Room complete

GKA is pleased to reveal our latest finished project, an extension to a 17th century Cotswold cottage.
The extension has been designed as an indoor/outdoor space, with glass doors that open up and disappear behind bookcases.
GKA have designed bespoke modular furniture for the project. The Mod Series can be reconfigured from single seats into larger sofas and can be moved outdoors when the weather heats up.
For more information please see our projects page

Happy Earth Day, from the Zombie Bench

George King designed the Zombie Bench waaaaaay back in 2012.
Zombie Bench had its 15 minutes of fame before its site near London’s Millennium Mills was abandoned.
Since then nature has had its way with the Zombie Bench and claimed it for itself.
Yet still it lives on. Silently, patiently waiting for a new home…

Vote for GKA in ArchDaily’s Building of the Year 2020

GKA’s Sousse and Bardo Memorial has been nominated for Building of the Year 2020. The annual award from ArchDaily asks readers to nominate their favourite buildings published on the site in the previous year. The Sousse and Bardo Memorial has been nominated in the Religious Architecture category. The entries from each category with the most nominations by February 10th 2020 will then move onto a shortlist, from which an overall winner will be decided.
If you would like to vote for the Sousse and Bardo Memorial please follow this link: https://boty.archdaily.com/us/2020/candidates/125743/sousse-and-bardo-memorial-slash-george-king-architects/referal/4823492_cf4ac150

Sousse and Bardo Memorial wins two BALI Awards

George King Architects attended the 43rd BALI National Landscape Awards in London on Friday where the Sousse and Bardo Memorial won two awards, one in the category of Hard Landscaping under £500k and a Special Award for an Outstanding Memorial. The ceremony, held by the British Association of Landscape Industries, is the largest landscaping awards in Europe and celebrates professional excellence within the industry.
The Memorial was submitted into the 2019 Awards by Blakedown Landscapes, the landscaping contractor appointed by GKA to complete the project.

Kings Square design revealed

Plans for the redevelopment of Kings Square in Gloucester were announced at a media briefing earlier today.
Inspired by the beauty of the Severn Bore, GKA has designed a series of sculptural stone waves which flow around the four edges of the square. The sculptural edge will be formed from a high quality concrete and aggregate mix and will provide areas of seating and planting and integrates steps and retaining walls.
Read more about the project here