Niall delivered the Giles Worsley Memorial Lecture at the British Academy, at Carlton House Terrace on the 11th of February. The lecture focussed on three projects, a country house in Hampshire, a chapel and the extension and restoration of Auckland Castle.
Niall McLaughlin was invited to be one of the six members of the RIBA Honours Committee Panel, a group selected to choose the winner of the Royal Gold Medal. The other members of the panel were architects Peter Clegg, Yvonne Farrell, Professor Adrian Forty, and Sarah Wigglesworth. The panel has nominated the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor as the 2013 recipient of the award.