Niall McLaughlin Architects is among those 30 practices shortlisted for the Wood Awards 2012 for the student accommodation for Oxford University’s Somerville College. The judges described this years shortlist as ‘exceptional’, stating that they had received an unprecedented 362 category entries for the awards.
The practice has been awarded the BPCF 2012 Creativity in Concrete Award for their treatment of the facade for the Athletes’ Housing Block N15 within the Olympic Village. The precast cladding panels sample fragments of the Elgin Marbles, which were scanned digitally from the British Museum in London. The scans were used to make fibreboard positives using a 5-axis router, which then became the formwork for the latex moulds from which the panels were cast.
