We are delighted that our West Court Phase 1 project for Jesus College has won this year’s Cambridge Design and Construction Award in the Conservation, Alteration and Extension category. The annual awards celebrate recent, high quality developments that have been built in the city. To visit the awards page please click here.
Niall McLaughlin nominated Herman Hertzberger as the recipient of the 2012 Royal Gold Medal. At the award ceremony in London this month Niall delivered the formal citation for Herman Hertzberger on behalf of the honours committee.
“For Hertzberger inhabitation is the key….architects should be specialists in the daily life of people. This is done not by asking people what they want but by undertaking a rational observation of what they are.”