OPENING OF LAMDA
JUNE 2017
Our newly completed building for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art has its official opening on the 14th June. Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, the Royal Patron of LAMDA will be in attendance. The project included the formation of a new black-box studio theatre and associated front and back of house facilities to the existing building, construction a new 6,000m2 building providing ten new flexible drama/ dance studios, a second black-box studio theatre and foyer, a full size training auditorium and ancillary accommodation.
NIALL MCLAUGHLIN WRITES LA ARTICLE FOR ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 2013
Niall McLaughlin has written an article for the Architectural Review, entitled ‘Street Life: Michael Maltzan’s Social Housing in Los Angeles’. The piece examines the history of the infamous area of LA known as Skid Row and three housing projects by the practice Michael Maltzan Architecture for this fractured part of the city. The piece draws out common themes between the projects, which are all low-cost accommodation for the previously homeless, exploring the successful spatial relationships between the private space of the individual rooms, the areas of common sheltered space and the public realm of the street.
“The formal virtuosity of each composition is Maltzan’s own special skill and they suggest that high architecture can give pleasure and dignity to all of us….I hope that the different spatial experiments, linking and articulating pavement, common sheltered space and private rooms, will become subjects for further reflection and analysis. It speaks of our common need to situate ourselves and participate in public life.” NM