From invisible timber junctions to Newton spectra on chapel walls, Níall McLaughlin recalls a series of encounters with a community of nuns that quietly upend assumptions about faith, expertise and architectural value.
The Irish architect, educator and writer has been recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects for a body of work defined by clarity, craft and a sustained commitment to the human experience of space.
A total of 17 projects, seven being from Cambridge University, including work from Feilden Fowles, Knox Bhavan, Níall McLaughlin Architects, Pollard Thomas Edwards, Gort Scott, Mole Architects, and Allies and Morrison, among others, are in the running for the RIBA East Awards 2024.
Four projects including work from Níall McLaughlin Architects, Purcell and Flanagan Lawrence, among others, are in the running for the RIBA North East Awards 2024.
Níall McLaughlin Architects’ exquisite music practice and performance space for Trinity Hall, Cambridge, may be diminutive in scale, but it joins a small pantheon of modernist projects that can be considered total works of art, says John Pardey.
The New Library at Magdalene College in Cambridge by Níall McLaughlin Architects has won the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize.
Niall McLaughlin Architects has designed eight low-rise blocks of student rooms and a sports pavilion for Balliol College, Oxford. Amin Taha pays a visit.
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Níall McLaughlin Architects weaves contextual and historic influences into the mixed-use Tapestry building at King’s Cross, finds David Kohn
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Adam Khan admires the blend of decorum and delight at Níall McLaughlin Architects’ Whitechapel housing for Peabody
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Mary Ann Steane admires a lyrical embodiment of liturgy and light at Niall McLaughlin’s Bishop Edward King Chapel
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A student residence by Niall McLaughlin at Somerville College, Oxford, draws on picturesque planning traditions to make a new street for the city, finds Tom Holbrook
Niall McLaughlin Architects have announced their appointment to design The Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan: a museum dedicated to the history of Christian Baptism.
