The International Rugby Experience had made the 52 project shorlist from the 187 entries. There is a public choice vote which you can go to from this link and make your vote! https://www.riai.ie/public-choice-award-poll
Niall McLaughlin nominated Herman Hertzberger as the recipient of the 2012 Royal Gold Medal. At the award ceremony in London this month Niall delivered the formal citation for Herman Hertzberger on behalf of the honours committee.
“For Hertzberger inhabitation is the key….architects should be specialists in the daily life of people. This is done not by asking people what they want but by undertaking a rational observation of what they are.”