ARCHITECTS JOURNAL
JANUARY 2018
We are delighted that 3 of our completed projects have been featured as building studies in the Architects’ Journal, 11/01/18 edition. There is also a piece about the practice set around a meeting between Niall and the AJ editor Robert Wilson on site at our Auckland Castle projects. The building studies include The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre for Worcester College in Oxford, West Court Phase 1 for Jesus College in Cambridge, and the London School of Music and Dramatic Art in London.
To view the articles on the AJ website, click here.
A+U FEATURE ON SOMERVILLE COLLEGE ACCOMMODATION
MAY 2014
The Japanese journal a+u has published an account of the practice’s student accommodation for Somerville College, Oxford. The theme of this month’s publication is ‘New Landscapes of Wooden Architecture’ and features an international selection of projects that explore new aspects of wood technology and its potential within cities. The article gives a description on the themes and processes behind the project, placing it within the context of the historic university city and the surrounding Radcliffe Infirmary Quarter.
It is illustrated with working details of the bespoke timber glazing for the stair tower lanterns, as well as the prefabricated timber projecting bay window units for the student bedrooms, with their integral desk and bench seat overlooking the street.
‘We chose to make the glazed elements in the stair towers and student rooms in wood because we wanted them to be like warm lanterns, internally lit in the evening, bringing light to the narrow street…Wood allowed us to make more three-dimensional details…we owe a debt to Louis Kahn’s work at Philip Exeter Academy Library.’ NM