The bell tower for the Bishop Edward King Chapel has been installed. The new chapel building has been designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects for Ripon Theological College in Oxfordshire. The project, which was won through an RIBA competition in July 2009, is due for completion in 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.”