Niall McLaughlin has been invited to chair the selection panel for the competition redevelop the Quadrangle at King’s College London’s historic Strand Campus. He will act as the RIBA architect advisor on the jury panel to pick the winning proposal from among the international field of entries.
Niall McLaughlin Architects’ Whitechapel housing scheme for the Peabody Trust has been granted planning permission by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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.”