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.
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.”