FAITH MUSEUM WINS AT NATURAL STONE AWARDS
DECEMBER 2024
Faith Museum for The Auckland Project picks up two wins at the Natural Stone Awards.
The project won both the best new building with traditional cladding and the best new building with rainscreen cladding at the Natural Stone Awards 2024.
The awards were presented by Kevin McCloud MBE at an event in London on Friday 6th December 2024. Associates Anne Schroell and Jacqueline Stephen accepted the awards on behalf of Níall McLaughlin Architects.The Natural Stone awards is a biennial awards celebrating the best stone construction projects in the UK.
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CHARLES JENCKS AWARD
SEPTEMBER 2016
Niall has been announced as winner of the Charles Jencks Award 2016, which is given annually to an outstanding architect or practice that ‘has recently made a major contribution to both the theory and practice of architecture’.
Explaining the judges’ choice, RIBA President Jane Duncan said: ‘Niall’s body of work exemplifies the spirit of this award, which recognises the ability to seamlessly, and, in this case, beautifully, build theory into one’s practice. I am in awe of the materiality and the craftsmanship, of the dedication, the collaborative relationships and the contextual sensitivity with which Niall’s buildings are created.’
According to Charles Jencks, Niall ‘is a great inspiration for architects today, especially the young, because of his masterful skill in drawing from all traditions – Classicism, Modernism, Postmodernism. All the ‘isms’ are under his belt, not on his back, and he extends them all through the commitment to architecture as an art and professional practice’
Previous winners of the award include Herzog & de Meuron, Benedetta Tagliabue, Rem Koolhaas, Stephen Holl and Zaha Hadid.
Niall will receive the award at a public lecture, chaired by Charles Jencks, at RIBA on 25th October.