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FAITH MUSEUM WINS AT BUILDING BEAUTY AWARDS

NOVEMBER 2024

FAITH MUSEUM WINS AT BUILDING BEAUTY AWARDS

Faith Museum for The Auckland Project named 'Britain's Most Beautiful New Building', picking up the Grand Winner and Building Award at the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust's Building Beauty Awards 2024. The awards were presented by His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester at a dinner in London on 21st November. 

The Faith Museum is an extension to the Grade I listed Castle and is sited along the line of a medieval retaining wall of the original castle complex. It houses an exhibition of faith in Britain and an environmentally controlled art store. 

The Royal Fine Art Commission Trust Building Beauty Awards were launched in 2021 and celebrate the best buildings, engineering structures and urban landscaping schemes that add beauty to Britain.

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OLD TIMBER TO NEW FIRES

NOVEMBER 2022

Old Timber to New Fires

On the 15th November Níall will be taking part in an online talks organised by Eric Parry Architects. The series on sacred space titled Presence, Person, Beauty, brings together contemporary authors to reflect on some of the most primary questions for theology and philosophy as well as the history of art and architecture. This series is in collaboration with The Reverend Canon Peter Newby, St Mary’s University. Níall's talk titled Old Timbers to New Fires can be viewed here.