PIP EDUCATION SEMINAR
SEPTEMBER 2018
On 25th September, Níall McLaughlin Architects will be contributing to the RIBAJ PIP Educational Buildings Seminar, hosted at the RIBA Headquarters on Portland Place, London. Alastair Crockett will be presenting the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre as a case study, alongside presentations from Dixon Jones on their Marlborough Primary School project and Isherwood and Ellis’ Castle Tower School.
For further details and to book a place, please see the registration page here.
THE WELCOME BUILDING
SEPTEMBER 2017
The Welcome Building in Bishop Auckland consists of a new viewing tower and central ticketing hall for the The Auckland Project. It acts as an access point and gateway to the wider site whilst also giving views over the town and landscape setting. The tower – a timber framed structure – is now well under way on site.
The building team has worked tirelessly and with the highest level of precision, to build the in-situ concrete lift shaft. Working from the ground up seemed to take an age.
Meanwhile, the enormous larch glulam beams have been carefully crafted and manually grey-oiled in the joiner’s workshop.
The frames are now being lifted into position on site and suddenly the building can be seen. Almost in an instant. As if the past four years had happened in the blink of an eye.
We are so excited and proud – even – to see this fantasy project becoming real at last. But with completion on the horizon, time seems to now move all too fast.