Niall McLaughlin Architects are among six practices to have been shortlisted as Public Building Architect of the Year. Other practices on the shortlist are Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Duggan Morris Architects, erect architecture, Pringle Richards Sharratt Archtiects and Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
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.”