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WORCESTER COLLEGE COMPETITION WIN

JANUARY 2014

Niall McLaughlin Architects are delighted to have been announced as winner of the competition to build a new theatre for Worcester College, Oxford. The scheme was picked from among a strong shortlist, including proposals by Hawkins/ Brown, Ian Ritchie and Purcell Architects. The competition brief was to design a 160-seat theatre, together with flexible studio space, seminar rooms and a small bar to be situated within the sensitive site of the College’s listed gardens. The scheme aims to improve the spaces between the old and new buildings of the College and resolve the relationship between these structures, the gardens and the network of small courts around the edge of the site.

TWO WINS AT THE OXFORD PRESERVATION TRUST AWARDS

NOVEMBER 2013

The practice were delighted to receive two awards at the Oxford Presentation Trust Awards earlier this month. The student accommodation for Somerville College and the Bishop Edward King Chapel were both among the winners in the New Buildings category, with the Chapel described by the judges as a “particularly popular award in an extraordinary year.”