Níall McLaughlin
Architects

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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ATHLETES OCCUPY OLYMPIC HOUSING

AUGUST 2012

In the run up to the London Olympics, the Athletes’ Village housing block N15, is now occupied with athletes’ preparing for the games.  Niall McLaughlin Architects have designed the external skin of the housing block on a ‘chassis’ designed by Glen Howells. The facade samples fragments of the Elgin Marbles, scanned from the British Museum and converted into 3D pre-cast panels depicting galloping horses from the Parthenon Frieze.

Niall McLaughlin commented on the practice’s approach to the unusual commission in Building Design. ‘I was very interested in the principle of the facade being delaminated from the building’s core form. Usually it’s something one tries to swim against to retain a sense of ‘authenticity’, but here we decided to embrace it….I like the idea of setting Ruskin’s conception of the craftsman against the absolute Taylorism of the construction process. Through digital reproduction, these deracinated stones are now doubly lost.’ (Building Design 27.01.2012)