The bell for the Bishop Edward King Chapel has been cast at the Whitechapel Foundry. Niall McLaughlin Architects won RIBA competition to design the new chapel for Ripon Theological College in Oxfordshire in July 2009. The project is currently on site and due for completion in early 2013.
Niall McLaughlin nominated Herman Hertzberger as the recipient of the 2012 Royal Gold Medal. At the award ceremony in London this month Niall delivered the formal citation for Herman Hertzberger on behalf of the honours committee.
“For Hertzberger inhabitation is the key….architects should be specialists in the daily life of people. This is done not by asking people what they want but by undertaking a rational observation of what they are.”