Níall McLaughlin
Architects

PIP Education Seminar

September 2018

On 25th September, Níall McLaughlin Architects will be contributing to the RIBAJ PIP Educational Buildings Seminar, hosted at the RIBA Headquarters on Portland Place, London. Alastair Crockett will be presenting the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre as a case study, alongside presentations from Dixon Jones on their Marlborough Primary School project and Isherwood and Ellis’ Castle Tower School.

For further details and to book a place, please see the registration page here.

Nazrin Shah Building – Steelwork

July 2015

Just over two years since our first tentative steps towards imagining what sort of space a new auditorium for Worcester College might possibly be like, we find ourselves enclosed within a spidery sketch, looking up to the trees through a skeletal enclosure of steel. We watched in excitement as our drawings were scribed across the site, first in neon spray paint and little red sticks, later excavated into deep ravines. We pick our way across the lines that had become so familiar on paper and are now concrete obstacles in a muddy field. The reality of this transition only became real as we stood looking across at the steel columns in this picture. They map out the positions of the stone fins that radiate around the curved facade of the new auditorium, with the sloping beams above us silhouetted against the bright July sky marking the future locations of the sculpted folds to the soffit.