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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RIBA EAST AWARD WINNER

MAY 2022

Magdalene College Library has been awarded a RIBA East Award. The New College Library for Magdalene College contains a study space and library, archive and picture gallery. Our scheme appears as an arrangement of simple brick volumes which echo the typical gabled architecture of the existing College. The main library is a suite of interconnecting rooms lined with bookcases, reading desks and galleries, arranged on a tartan grid between interconnecting passageways. Three main reading rooms organise the principal circulation route through the library from the three-storey entrance hall, to a double-height central reading room and up to a long single-height room overlooking the garden.

The RIBA judges commented "A brief to create a college library with a lifespan of 400 years – to replace a library gifted to Magdalene by Samuel Pepys 300 years previously – is no small task. Niall McLaughlin Architects have certainly risen to the challenge with this deft and inspiring temple to learning."