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AUCKLAND TOWER MODEL INCLUDED IN RA SUMMER EXHIBITION

JUNE 2018

Auckland Tower model included in RA Summer Exhibition

A model of our proposals for the Welcome Building at Auckland Castle is now on display in the Architecture Room of the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. Representing one of the two projects we are working on at Auckland Castle, the model is titled Auckland Tower, The Auckland Project and is made out of walnut and brass. The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. It has been curated by Grayson Perry CBE RA with the Architecture Room selected by Royal Academician Piers Gough. The exhibition runs through the summer until the 19th August.

ST CROSS TOPPING OUT

JANUARY 2016

St Cross Topping Out

On the 15th of January to celebrate the West Quad building reaching its highest point, the College held a ‘topping out’ ceremony.  The new Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Professor Richardson marked the occasion by filling cement on the building’s rooftop. Professor Richardson, remarked on the use of ‘creativity in such a constrained space and sensitivity to the surroundings’.