ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
NOVEMBER 2020
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.
WEST COURT FOR JESUS COLLEGE WINS AIA UK AWARD
APRIL 2018
Níall McLaughlin Architects are delighted that our West Court project for Jesus College Cambridge has been announced as the overall winner of the American Institute of Architecture UK Awards 2018. It was selected from a strong shortlist of 20 projects including Bloomberg European Headquarters by Foster + Partners, Inagawa Cemetery by David Chipperfield and the Royal Academy of Music’s Theatre and New Recital Hall by Ian Ritchie Architects.
Three fantastic projects were awarded commendations including the Smithsonian Nation- al Museum of African American History and Culture by David Adjaye Architects, Kings Gate London by Lynch Architects and Weston Street by AHMM. IF_DO won the Young Architect category for their Dulwich Pavilion and Part 1 student Ross Gribben won the Unbuilt category with his project Hydra.