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Alternative Histories

November 2020

Alternative Histories

Acknowledging that architecture is a corpus of inherited ideas, Alternative Histories invited more than 80 contemporary practices in the UK and Europe to imagine an exchange with architects from the past. Each office was assigned a different drawing from the collection of Drawing Matter. The architects were then tasked with making a model that not only responded to what they saw, but envisioned an alternative future for the original drawing while adhering to the constraints of the project

Our practice was given Basil Spence’s sketch for the enlargement of the Houses of Parliament. To view our response to this project please visit the Drawing Matter website here.

Whitechapel Housing Receives New London Award

July 2012

Whitechapel Housing Receives New London Award

Niall McLaughlin Architects’ Whitechapel housing scheme for the Peabody Trust was the recipient of a NLA Special Award. The New London Awards seek to give recognition to schemes of the highest design quality in the capital.   Images from the Whitechapel housing scheme are to be on display in the NLA galleries at the Building Centre, London.