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Bridge Point gains planning consent

02.06.2020
We are pleased to announce that our scheme at Bridge Point, Rye, received planning permission. Our design for Martello Developments sees the conversion of a series of warehouses into artist workshops, performance space, gallery, riverfront restaurant and housing. The scheme includes a riverside footpath running the length of the site with wildflower planting and new boat moorings. An outdoor amphitheatre carved into the riverbank forms the centre point of this exciting new public landscaping proposal that transforms a former lorry park into a rich and biodiverse space. RX Architects in collaboration with sustainability engineering experts Price & Myers and P3R have developed the scheme to aim for the highest environmental standards through the use of on-site renewables and passive design methods. The project aims to open up and reconnect Rye to a historically important part of the town to revive and reconnect this riverside area for all.

New house submitted for full planning

17.04.20
Planning has been submitted for a contemporary house in the High Weald AONB near Wadhurst, East Sussex. The design combines charred timber cladding and zinc seamed roofing. It will be sustainably heated via a ground source heat loop. The scheme also includes extensive landscaping works and several outbuildings, along with a new natural swimming pool lake.

Druim Featured in Architecture Journals

09.04.20
One of our latest beach houses Druim has been featured in online architecture journals such as Archello, Archdaily, Architecture Today and E-Architect.

The project involved the remodelling of an existing unfinished detached house. The design expanded the living accommodation and improved the internal layout, maximising the light and open views across the adjacent nature reserve and beyond to the sea.

The design included a replacement first floor to provide extra sleeping accommodation. The first floor cantilevers over the western elevation, to create a covered entrance canopy below to shelter the entrance from the exposed prevailing winds.

The Ground floor layout opens up on all elevations to the nature reserve and sea views, as well as the shingle ridges to the north. The layout provides a large open plan kitchen, living and dining space with a staircase which runs up and around the central brick chimney with slot views to the rear. There is a library snug with a balcony on the first floor with views of the sea.

There is also a detached single storey games room and annex studio with log burner.

17.01.20
To start 2020, RX Architects have partnered with “Trees For Life,” to enable us to offset all our annual carbon emissions. Trees For Life is a certified UK Reforestation Project dedicated to rewilding the Scottish Highlands. https://treesforlife.org.uk/

2019 saw the vast majority of our clients switch from fossil fuels and embrace on site renewables such as air source or ground source heat pumps and we are excited to say that currently all our residential projects scheduled to break ground in 2020 have adopted on site renewables as the primary energy source.

We fully support our clients in this regard and RX Architects will continue to adopt low carbon technology wherever possible in our construction projects.

Gristmill Gains Planning Consent

14.01.20
We are delighted that Gristmill has been granted planning permission. The scheme is a mixed use development along the embankment of River Brede in Rye. The project involves the design of an open commercial space at ground floor level and apartments at first floor level. Large fenestration provide views of the waterway and the town of Rye.

Proposed materials include black brick at ground floor level, natural timber cladding and dark seamed zinc panelling for the roof.

The Line Featured in Architecture Journals

25.11.19
Our latest beach front development 'The Line' has been featured in numerous online architecture journals such as Architecture Today, Dwell Magazine and E-Architect.

The Line is a new build development of two detached beach houses on the sea front at Winchelsea Beach, East Sussex. The pair of houses are three stories and arranged with the living accommodation on the top floor to maximise the incredible views out across the beach. The top floor has floor to ceiling sliding glass doors leading out onto a large terrace looking out to sea.

The properties are each named Mavericks and Cloudbreak, after well know surf’s in California and Fiji with the two being referred to collectively as The Line.

Winchelsea Beach is mainly a shingle beach with views across Rye & Winchelsea Nature reserve and to Dungeness beyond. The area is designated as a highly protected SSSI which attracts a vast range of migrating birds to the unique shingle ridged wetlands.

7 The Suttons, Camber Sands Gains Planning Consent

21.11.19
We are delighted that 7 The Suttons, Camber Sands has been granted planning permission. The project involves the construction of a new build two storey beach house, a two storey outbuilding and new garden. The external appearance of the dwelling and outbuilding will include white render and stained timber cladding. Large fenestration will provide grand views of Camber Sands and the English Channel.