Níall McLaughlin Architects Lecture, Exhibition and Book Launch at the RIBA
December 2018
Níall McLaughlin has been invited by the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Ben Derbyshire, to exhibit the practices work from this year’s Venice Biennale at the RIBA building in London which will be on display in the RIBA’s Florence Hall from 10th – 28th January 2019. Niall will give a lecture on the work on the evening of the 15th January. The lecture will be followed by an event in the Florence Hall to celebrate the installation and its contributors, and to launch Twelve Halls, the book accompanying the exhibition.
Mary Ann Steane Article in Architecture Today on Ripon College Chapel
March 2013
Author and Cambridge academic Mary Ann Steane has written on the Chapel’s “lyrical embodiment of liturgy and light” in an article published in Architecture Today. Dr. Steane previously included the Carmelite Monastery project in her book ‘The Architecture of Light’. The article in Architecture Today elucidates on the Chapel’s filtering of natural light through the internal timber structure, as a means of tying the building to its surroundings.
“On a sunny day the upper surfaces become an animated embroidery of light and shadow in tune with the surrounding windblown foliage, but even on a dull day the way that light is held within the tall enclosure is critical to the project’s narrative of tethering.”
Link to the full article