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Niall McLaughlin Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

29 May 2022
Magdalene College Library, University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, southeast England, United Kingdom

photo : Nick Kane
Magdalene College Library University of Cambridge
A brief to create a college library with a lifespan of 400 years – to replace a library gifted to Magdalene by Samuel Pepys 300 years previously – is no small task. Niall McLaughlin Architects have certainly risen to the challenge with this deft and inspiring temple to learning. The library combines load-bearing brickwork with exquisitely detailed horizontal engineered timber structure to establish a lofty, surprisingly vertical space with a complex three-dimensional tartan grid.

16 June 2019
Architect Níall McLaughlin – Royal Academy of Arts Royal Academician
Niall is Professor of Architectural Practice at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London:
Royal Academy of Arts Royal Academician

26 May 2018
West Court, Jesus College, Cambridge is a RIBA East Awards Winner in 2018

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RIBA East Awards Winners 2018

28 Mar 2018
RIBA East Awards Shortlist 2018
West Court, Jesus College, Cambridge, is one of nineteen buildings shortlisted for RIBA East 2018 regional awards:

RIBA East Awards Shortlist 2018

Ayr Riverside Development Construction
Architects: Keppie Design ; Masterplan by Niall McLaughlin Architects

Construction work is set to get under way early next year on a new £10m Ayr Riverside Office Development following an agreement led by development partner hub Southwest, acting alongside South Ayrshire Council, to award the construction contract to Tier 1 contractor, Morgan Sindall.

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Ayr Waterfront Office Development

28 Feb 2017
Ayr Waterfront Masterplan Approval

The architects have won approval for this bold masterplan in Southwest Scotland.

Known as the Riverside Block between the medieval “Auld Brig” and the Victorian “New Bridge”, the plans include sweeping away the massive retail stores which have blocked access to the river since the 1960s and the creation of landscaped public realm alongside a festival building and an elegant new waterfront for the town, according to South Ayrshire Council.

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Full Planning Application: Ayr Riverside Masterplan by Niall McLaughlin Architects

23 Nov 2016
Ayr Riverside Masterplan
Ayr Renaissance, a body formed by South Ayrshire Council to lead the regeneration of Ayr town centre has submitted an ambitious waterfront masterplan.

22 + 21 Sep 2016

Níall McLaughlin wins 2016 RIBA Charles Jencks Award for architecture

21 September 2016 – The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (21 September 2016) announced Níall McLaughlin, founder of Níall McLaughlin Architects, as winner of the 2016 RIBA Charles Jencks Award.

Níall McLaughlin architect:

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The award is given to an individual or practice that has recently made a major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture. It will be presented on Tuesday 25 October at the RIBA in London, where the winner will also give a public lecture chaired by Charles Jencks.

27 May 2016
Natural History Museum Scheme, London, UK

Proposals to transform the surroundings of the Natural History Museum, London, have been lodged with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Architect Alfred Waterhouse’s building is a visual essay of the intellectual landscape of its day. Commissioned by the naturalist Richard Owen, who disagreed with Darwin that a creature could move from one phylum to another as part of the process of Natural Selection, the skeletal gothic structure teems with wildlife divided into separate species, as a counter to Darwin’s ideas of transmutation. We enjoy the paradox of a monument to a discredited premise embedded in the city, reports Níall McLaughlin Architects. It speaks of the diversity and complexity of the natural world and the fluid landscape of scientific research of which the museum is a global leader.

Our proposal incorporates a new public garden square at the corner of Exhibition Road and Cromwell Road, with a campanile, announcing the presence of the museum at this important junction. The base of the tower forms a new entrance to the museum that is accessed directly from the tunnel connecting back to the tube station.

A new east-west promenade within the railings enclosing the museum re-instates the view of Waterhouse’s beautifully zoomorphic south facade, with a contemporary urban garden exploring ‘future nature’ laid out at the western end. We intend that the east-west sequence story, from geology and paleontology through to future nature, encapsulated within the museum, will now be given public expression in the newly configured gardens of the exterior setting.

Natural History Museum London design by Níall McLaughlin Architects

24 Nov 2015

Niall McLaughlin Architects to represent Ireland at Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2016

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, TD, Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht,
today (16 November, 2015) announced the selection of Niall McLaughlin Architects to represent
Ireland at the 15 th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2016.

Niall McLaughlin Architects at Venice Biennale 2016 Architecture

20 Jun 2013
Bishop Edward King Chapel, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK

photograph © Niall Ferguson
Chapel in Oxfordshire
Ripon College Cuddesdon and the Oxford Ministry Course combine to make a thriving, vibrant single institution providing theological education and training for ministry. The new Chapel building will be built as part of a major programme of expansion and consolidation of its buildings.

Student Accommodation, Somerville College, Oxford, England, UK

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Student Accommodation Somerville College – RIBA Awards 2012 winner news
The demolition of the Radcliffe Infirmary exposed a long blank façade as the college had long turned its back on the hospital. An exchange of land allowed a development on this edge site containing new student rooms thus meaning the college can re-orientate its grounds towards a new Humanities faculty.

Bishop Edward King Chapel, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, southeast England
2009-

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Bishop Edward King Chapel
Niall McLaughlin Architects has won the RIBA competition to design a new College Chapel in Oxfordshire. Ripon College Cuddesdon and the Oxford Ministry Course combine to make a thriving, vibrant single institution providing theological education and training for ministry. The new Chapel building will be built as part of a major programme of expansion and consolidation of its buildings in order to meet the needs of ministerial formation and Christian education in the 21st century.

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts – LAMDA, London, UK
2009

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LAMDA Building

Niall McLaughlin Architects – Key Projects

Major Projects by Niall McLaughlin Architects Office, alphabetical:

ARC Hull, northeast England
2006

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ARC Hull building

Café, Deal Pier, Kent, southeast England
2009

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Deal Pier Cafe : RIAI Awards 2009 Shortlist

Dirk Cove House
Conversion of a ruined Coastguard Station, Ireland

photograph © Niall McLaughlin
Dirk Cove House

Silvertown Housing, Silvertown, East London, UK
2004
Peabody Trust design competition

photograph © Niall McLaughlin
Silvertown Housing : Fresh Ideas for Low Cost Housing

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Niall McLaughlin Architects Buildings, no images

Designs, alphabetical:

Castleford Forum, Yorkshire, England
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Daycare & Respite Centre (for Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland), Dublin, Ireland
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De La Warr Pavilion Bandstand, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England
2003

House at Jacob’s Ladder, Oxfordshire, England
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T1 Building, King’s Cross, north London
2008-
Architecture competition winner

St James the Great Church + residential development, Peckham, south London
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Location: London, England, UK