The Master's Field Development for Balliol College has won 2 awards at this years Schüco Excellence Awards in the Health, Education and Leisure category and as the overall winner. One of the judges commented “This thoughtful, high-quality project works at many different scales, from its collegiate context to the beautiful detailing of the façades”.
A short film has been made about the practice and the design of the Tapestry Building, a large-scale mixed-use development on the edge of the Regent’s Canal in King’s Cross. The scheme forms one element in the wider regeneration of the 67-acre site adjacent to King’s Cross station and the Regent’s Canal.
In the film Niall McLaughlin describes the design influences behind the woven tapestry-like facade and places the building within a tradition of masonry buildings looking to imitate “the intensity and the enmeshed, thicket-like quality of tapestries” that goes back to the origins of architecture, where hanging tapestries were used to enclose space.