Niall McLaughlin has been invited to present the annual Futuna Lecture series in New Zealand in March. Niall will speak on the work of the practice at both Auckland and Christchurch Universities and lecture as part of the open day at the Futuna Chapel in Wellington.
The practice has been awarded the BPCF 2012 Creativity in Concrete Award for their treatment of the facade for the Athletes’ Housing Block N15 within the Olympic Village. The precast cladding panels sample fragments of the Elgin Marbles, which were scanned digitally from the British Museum in London. The scans were used to make fibreboard positives using a 5-axis router, which then became the formwork for the latex moulds from which the panels were cast.
