On the 31st of October Shane de Blacam will be giving a lecture at the Royal Academy reflecting on his decades of work and his belief that architecture should speak for itself. He will be joined for questions at the end of the lecture by Níall. Tickets can be booked through here.
In October Niall was one of 5 judges for this years RIBA President’s Silver Medal alongside Alexander Brodsky, Alan Jones, Carme Pinós and David Gloster who chaired the judging. The awards are given to the most outstanding design portfolios from work submitted by schools of architecture worldwide. The 2015 Silver Medal went to Finn Wilkie from the Mackintosh School of Architecture and the Bronze to Boon Yik Chung from the Bartlett School of Architecture. Marie Price from The University of Westminster won the Dissertation Medal.