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FAITH MUSEUM WINS AT BUILDING BEAUTY AWARDS

November 2024

FAITH MUSEUM WINS AT BUILDING BEAUTY AWARDS

Faith Museum for The Auckland Project named 'Britain's Most Beautiful New Building', picking up the Grand Winner and Building Award at the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust's Building Beauty Awards 2024. The awards were presented by His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester at a dinner in London on 21st November. 

The Faith Museum is an extension to the Grade I listed Castle and is sited along the line of a medieval retaining wall of the original castle complex. It houses an exhibition of faith in Britain and an environmentally controlled art store. 

The Royal Fine Art Commission Trust Building Beauty Awards were launched in 2021 and celebrate the best buildings, engineering structures and urban landscaping schemes that add beauty to Britain.

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RIBA Silver Medal Judging

November 2015

In October Niall was one of 5 judges for this years RIBA President’s Silver Medal alongside Alexander Brodsky, Alan Jones, Carme Pinós and David Gloster who chaired the judging. The awards are given to the most outstanding design portfolios from work submitted by schools of architecture worldwide. The 2015 Silver Medal went to Finn Wilkie from the Mackintosh School of Architecture and the Bronze to Boon Yik Chung from the Bartlett School of Architecture. Marie Price from The University of Westminster won the Dissertation Medal.