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St Cross Topping Out

January 2016

St Cross Topping Out

On the 15th of January to celebrate the West Quad building reaching its highest point, the College held a ‘topping out’ ceremony.  The new Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Professor Richardson marked the occasion by filling cement on the building’s rooftop. Professor Richardson, remarked on the use of ‘creativity in such a constrained space and sensitivity to the surroundings’.

RIBA Honours Committee Panel Chooses Royal Gold Medal Winner

October 2012

Niall McLaughlin was invited to be one of the six members of the RIBA Honours Committee Panel, a group selected to choose the winner of the Royal Gold Medal. The other members of the panel were architects Peter Clegg, Yvonne Farrell, Professor Adrian Forty, and Sarah Wigglesworth. The panel has nominated the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor as the 2013 recipient of the award.