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.
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM PROGRESS
MARCH 2017
Below are some from the Natural History Museum site showing the scaffold ‘tunnel’ going up at the Museum. This is the framework required to lift, manipulate, and move the blue whale skull into position in a few weeks.
Though the main hall has had a sperm whale in it before, this was only around 15m long. In contrast, the blue whale, the largest known animal to have ever existed, is about 30m long once assembled.
Unfortunately, due to the various extensions and alterations to the Museum over time, the skull can only come in via the front doors. And – much like a very large, very heavy, very valuable sofa – it’s a case of squeezing it in at strange angles.