Work is progressing fast on GKA’s Cotswold extension project. Erection has begun of the steelwork frame that will support the cantilevered roof. Check back here soon to see how the project develops!
George King Architects have received planning approval for a four bedroom ‘Slate House’ in the Cornwall village of Port Isaac. The four bedroom house features a hanging slate facade and views out towards the Atlantic Ocean. Take a look at our projects page for more information.
George King has been announced as a member of the design jury for the Passageways 2.0 Design competition. Passageways 2.0 is an international call for multi-disciplinary design teams to submit proposals for a $80,000 permanent installation to be housed in a passageway in downtown Chattanooga.
Specialist architectural metal fabricators m-tec will be featuring some of GKA’s work on their stand at the 2017 American Society of Landscape Architects EXPO in Los Angeles over the weekend. GKA’s work will be featured alongside a handpicked group of other UK artists. The annual event is attracts over 5,500 attendees and 350 exhibitors. You can find m-tec at booth 1738 with the EXPO running from October 20-23.
GKA travelled to Latina, Italy last Saturday to attend the 2017 COMEL Awards. GKA’s sculpture Holding Pattern, completed for last year’s Art on the Atlanta BeltLine has been nominated as a finalist in the award. A smaller version of the original sculpture was shipped to Latina for inclusion in the exhibition.
The award celebrates artwork made from aluminium and included pieces from 13 shortlisted artists from across Europe.
George King has begun teaching an undergraduate studio in the Architecture Department at the University of Greenwich in London. George will run the unit entitled ‘Artificial Future’ with Yeena Yoon. The studio is for 2nd and 3rd year students and will run throughout the 2017/2018 academic year.
George King Architects have been named as a finalist in the year’s COMEL Award. The award, which celebrates the use of aluminium in contemporary art, received hundreds of entries from artists around the world.
GKA is one of 13 finalists whose work will be included in an exhibition in Latina, Italy in October.
Work has begun on GKA’s latest residential project, an extension to a 17th century Cotswold cottage. Located in a conservation area and a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the key design feature of the extension is a set of sliding glass doors which disappear behind timber bookcases to open the entire room up to the garden. Combined with a cantilevered roof structure the effect is of a room that in the summer can be completely opened up, creating an unenclosed space that bleeds into the landscape, ideal for relaxing, entertaining and enjoying the sunshine.
George King Architects have been included on the shortlist for the 2015 Sousse and Bardo Memorial design competition. The memorial will be located within Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham and will commemorate the British victims of these two terrible attacks.The design competition has been organised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with the chosen design to be announced later in the year.
Buried amongst the brambles, weeds and ant nests, a spooky discovery has been made on an East London development site…
And it goes by the name of ZOMBIE BENCH!
Nearly five years after George King installed his Zombie Bench as part of the London Pleasure Grounds event, GKA have been to the Silvertown development site in Newham to see how the bench has fared. Remarkably, the sturdy concrete structure has survived almost entirely intact, looking all the more surreal abandoned on the apocalyptic site!
We are now searching for a new home for the bench, somewhere a little more accessible, where Zombie Bench can delight, scare and amuse the public once again!