Twelve Halls Second Edition

March 2025

A second edition of our publication Twelve Halls has been released and is now available to order here via the publishers website. The publishers Objectif Editions is a non-profit project by Munich and Bristol based design studio Objectif, aiming to support artistic and literary talent. We enable culturally, artistically or socially engaged individuals and small organisations to showcase their work in a high quality standard at no financial cost to them. Design and production are entirely covered by sales, and profits are reinvested into the project.

Nazrin Shah Building – Steelwork

July 2015

Just over two years since our first tentative steps towards imagining what sort of space a new auditorium for Worcester College might possibly be like, we find ourselves enclosed within a spidery sketch, looking up to the trees through a skeletal enclosure of steel. We watched in excitement as our drawings were scribed across the site, first in neon spray paint and little red sticks, later excavated into deep ravines. We pick our way across the lines that had become so familiar on paper and are now concrete obstacles in a muddy field. The reality of this transition only became real as we stood looking across at the steel columns in this picture. They map out the positions of the stone fins that radiate around the curved facade of the new auditorium, with the sloping beams above us silhouetted against the bright July sky marking the future locations of the sculpted folds to the soffit.