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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.

Further information available here

 

Concrete Elegance Lecture

September 2013

Niall McLaughlin has spoken on the themes surrounding two of the practice’s recent projects, the Athletes‘ Housing for the London Olympics and the Bishop Edward King Chapel in Oxfordshire, at an event hosted by the Building Centre in London. The evening was entitled “Concrete Elegance – Exploring Light and Spatial Creativity.”

Link to the Concrete Centre
Link to Concrete Centre Lecture