The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre for Worcester College in Oxford and West Court Jesus College in Cambridge have been awarded 2018 RIBA National Awards. The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre has already won RIBA South Building of the Year and project architect Tom McGlynn was awarded the RIBA East Project Architect of the Year for Jesus College.
Preparations for Biennale Architettura 2016 have begun in earnest: concepts advanced; collaborators recruited; designs developed. Niall and Yeoryia (Manolopoulou, of AY Architects) have met with a number of experts on the subject of dementia and design, including scientists at UCL; the Centre Manager at the Alzheimer’s Centre in Dublin; the Vice-Chair of the European Working Group of People with Dementia and experts from the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling. We are excited by the emerging details of the various elements of this year’s exhibition, and look forward to unveiling our contribution in May.