LIMERICK TALKS
OCTOBER 2015
On the 7th of October Niall gave 2 talks entitled ‘Creating Space for Worship’ and ‘Creating Space for Community’ at the invitation of Bishop Brendan Leahy in Limerick, in preparation for the Diocesan Synod in 2016.
ARGENT KINGS CROSS FILM
MAY 2013
A short film has been made about the practice and the design of the Tapestry Building, a large-scale mixed-use development on the edge of the Regent’s Canal in King’s Cross. The scheme forms one element in the wider regeneration of the 67-acre site adjacent to King’s Cross station and the Regent’s Canal.
In the film Niall McLaughlin describes the design influences behind the woven tapestry-like facade and places the building within a tradition of masonry buildings looking to imitate “the intensity and the enmeshed, thicket-like quality of tapestries” that goes back to the origins of architecture, where hanging tapestries were used to enclose space.