Níall was featured on Songs Of Praise which was aired on the 8th September. The programm filmed at St Paul’s Cathedral looks at Heavenly Designs and how Christopher Wren has been an inspiration to Níall. The program can be viewed on BBC iplayer until the 7th October. Click on this link to view the episode.
Under the tile ‘Happy Ending’, Jan-Carlos Kucharek has reviewed the Chapel for Ripon Theological College in Oxfordshire. The article reflects on the conversations with the client to develop the design, together with the stories and architectural precedents that worked together to inform the building’s final form. Kucharek writes, “…there’s no questioning the positive effect of McLaughlin’s £2.6m chapel on the picturesque Ripon College, both functionally and aesthetically.” He goes on to describe the elliptical form, accessed on the diagonal between the long and short axes, as “a master stroke.”