MONK Article
November 2020
MONK, an art magazine who specifically look at exploring creativity, consciousness and spirituality, have done an in-depth interview with Jonathan Ruffer. Jonathan Ruffer is the philanthropist behind the regeneration of Bishop Auckland where we have two of our projects, Auckland Tower and the Scotland Wing. Within the article the author, Sophie Lévy Burton, describes the Scotland Wing as “utterly beautiful – as mindful as architecture can get”. You can view the whole article on their website here.
Key Note Lecture at Conference on Modern Sacred Architecture
October 2014
Niall McLaughlin has given a keynote lecture on the theme of ‘Sacred Spaces’ as part of a conference on Modern Sacred Architecture in Ireland and Germany, hosted at Newman House in Dublin. The conference was hosted as a collaboration between University College Dublin, Goethe-Institut Ireland and the National College of Art and Design. The other key note lecturers were Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor of Art History at UCD and Amandus Sattler, principal of the award-wining Munich practice, Allmann Sattler Wappner.
The three day event explored themes of abstraction and innovation, together with conservation and re-use in the design of churches, mosques and synagogues from 1920s to the present day. The lectures and panel discussions focussed on sacred architecture of the period within Ireland and Germany. Niall spoke on themes surrounding the practice’s ecclesiastical work, including the Bishop Edward King Chapel and the Carmelite chapels in London and Dublin.