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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NIALL MCLAUGHLIN WRITES LA ARTICLE FOR ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 2013
Niall McLaughlin has written an article for the Architectural Review, entitled ‘Street Life: Michael Maltzan’s Social Housing in Los Angeles’. The piece examines the history of the infamous area of LA known as Skid Row and three housing projects by the practice Michael Maltzan Architecture for this fractured part of the city. The piece draws out common themes between the projects, which are all low-cost accommodation for the previously homeless, exploring the successful spatial relationships between the private space of the individual rooms, the areas of common sheltered space and the public realm of the street.
“The formal virtuosity of each composition is Maltzan’s own special skill and they suggest that high architecture can give pleasure and dignity to all of us….I hope that the different spatial experiments, linking and articulating pavement, common sheltered space and private rooms, will become subjects for further reflection and analysis. It speaks of our common need to situate ourselves and participate in public life.” NM