HOUSE AT GOLEEN PUBLISHED ONLINE
OCTOBER 2012
The House at Goleen has been published in the online design magazine, Dezeen. The article described the project as ‘a staggered row of gables that step gradually down the sloping site.’
SOMERVILLE COLLEGE SHORTLISTED FOR BRICK AWARDS
AUGUST 2012
The Somerville College student accommodation for Oxford University has been shortlisted for the Brick Awards 2012 under category of the Best Housing Development of 26 units or more. Other contenders on the shortlist are Hawkins Brown, Haworth Tompkins, Glen Howells and Cartwright Pickard.
ATHLETES OCCUPY OLYMPIC HOUSING
AUGUST 2012
In the run up to the London Olympics, the Athletes’ Village housing block N15, is now occupied with athletes’ preparing for the games. Niall McLaughlin Architects have designed the external skin of the housing block on a ‘chassis’ designed by Glen Howells. The facade samples fragments of the Elgin Marbles, scanned from the British Museum and converted into 3D pre-cast panels depicting galloping horses from the Parthenon Frieze.
Niall McLaughlin commented on the practice’s approach to the unusual commission in Building Design. ‘I was very interested in the principle of the facade being delaminated from the building’s core form. Usually it’s something one tries to swim against to retain a sense of ‘authenticity’, but here we decided to embrace it….I like the idea of setting Ruskin’s conception of the craftsman against the absolute Taylorism of the construction process. Through digital reproduction, these deracinated stones are now doubly lost.’ (Building Design 27.01.2012)