RIBA REGIONAL SHORTLIST FOR AUCKLAND CASTLE, TOWER AND FAITH MUSEUM
FEBRUARY 2024
The Auckland Projects Faith Museum, Castle and Tower has been shortlisted for a North East RIBA Award. The client, The Auckland Project was founded by philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer. The project is a series of urban and historic interventions: the restoration of the 900-year-old Grade I listed Castle, the Auckland Tower, a welcome and orientation building with ticket office and events hall; and the new extension to the Castle to accommodate the Faith Museum.
ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION OF AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE
JANUARY 2014
Niall McLaughlin has been invited to participate in a conference on Milson Island on the Hawkesbury River in Australia. Organised by the Architecture Foundation Australia, the residential event gathers an international field of speakers to explore a chosen theme. It will take place between the 28th and 30th of March 2014. This year’s theme will be ‘trace de la main’, taken from the comment by engineer Peter Rice that “whereas a Gothic cathedral will express the real and physical presence of the stone from which it was made, and of the masons who laboured over its construction so many years ago, very few modern buildings carry the same physical presence of the materials of which they were built. In short, ‘the trace de la main’, the evidence of those who built it, is not there.”