FAST TALKS CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 2024
Niall will be keynote speaking at the TALKS conference series at FAST 2024 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
FAST Festival for Architecture Schools of Tomorrow is being held between 30th October and November 3rd. The TALKS conference series aims to explore the intersections between professional practice and academic inquiry under the theme “Diversecity.” FAST 2024 is organised by the Romanian Order of Architects (OAR) and features speakers from around the world.
Niall wil be speaking at 18:00 on 01.11.2024 at the Cluj-Napoca National Opera.
Further information about the event is available here.
THE WELCOME BUILDING
SEPTEMBER 2017
The Welcome Building in Bishop Auckland consists of a new viewing tower and central ticketing hall for the The Auckland Project. It acts as an access point and gateway to the wider site whilst also giving views over the town and landscape setting. The tower – a timber framed structure – is now well under way on site.
The building team has worked tirelessly and with the highest level of precision, to build the in-situ concrete lift shaft. Working from the ground up seemed to take an age.
Meanwhile, the enormous larch glulam beams have been carefully crafted and manually grey-oiled in the joiner’s workshop.
The frames are now being lifted into position on site and suddenly the building can be seen. Almost in an instant. As if the past four years had happened in the blink of an eye.
We are so excited and proud – even – to see this fantasy project becoming real at last. But with completion on the horizon, time seems to now move all too fast.