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.
NAZRIN SHAH BUILDING – STEELWORK
JULY 2015
Just over two years since our first tentative steps towards imagining what sort of space a new auditorium for Worcester College might possibly be like, we find ourselves enclosed within a spidery sketch, looking up to the trees through a skeletal enclosure of steel. We watched in excitement as our drawings were scribed across the site, first in neon spray paint and little red sticks, later excavated into deep ravines. We pick our way across the lines that had become so familiar on paper and are now concrete obstacles in a muddy field. The reality of this transition only became real as we stood looking across at the steel columns in this picture. They map out the positions of the stone fins that radiate around the curved facade of the new auditorium, with the sloping beams above us silhouetted against the bright July sky marking the future locations of the sculpted folds to the soffit.