Níall McLaughlin Architects   Ireland   In the vicinity of Grafton Street, which is one of Dublin’s busiest and most popular thoroughfares, St Teresa’s Church offers a peaceful space for contemplation and worship amid the urban turmoil. Beside it is the priory, home to a congregation of Ca

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Located in one of the courts of Trinity Hall, one of Cambridge University’s oldest colleges, the WongAvery Gallery replaced a modest shelter built early in the 20th century – attached to the south wall of Avery Court – with a facility for music educa

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   A cross the coast from Portsmouth, in the waters of the Solent, the Isle of Wight is characterized by its rich natural environment and a climate that is gentler than elsewhere in the British Isles. This attractive context and Queen Victoria’s frequen

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   The completion of this student residence is the latest milestone in over a decade of collaboration with Somerville College, in commissions for new constructions and various refurbishments, allowing a longstanding ambition to offer all its undergradua

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Founded in the year 1263, Balliol is one of the oldest colleges at Oxford. To the east of its historic premises in Broad Street, around the lawn of a cricket pitch, an ambitious masterplan has been carried out which comprises eight blocks of student

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Unlike other institutions of Cambridge University, Jesus College was founded outside the city, on the grounds of an old Benedictine convent. With their five hundred years of history, these buildings form the core of the college, which has grown aroun

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Raised on a podium on the edge of a green meadow that serves as a cricket pitch, the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre was designed in the manner of a theater in a garden. It had to engage not only with the parkland and nearby canals but also with the univer

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   By the side of a picturesque lake in the Hampshire countryside, and bordered on the south by a small stream of pristine water and swift currents, the site of this small shelter is one of the best spots for fly fishing in the British Isles. To ensure

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Along with the design of various new student halls for Somerville College, the studio has refurbished and enlarged the listed Wolfson Building, originally designed by Philip Dowson and a team at Arup Associates in the 1960s, and currently listed and

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   In the wake of World War II, King’s Cross became a very degraded industrial zone, but since the early 1990s the district has undergone an incessant urban regeneration process, much of it triggered by the renovation of the historic station and the arr

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Somerville College was founded in 1879 as a college of the University of Oxford and was one of the first higher-education centers for women. It is situated at the north end of St Giles’ Street, one of the city’s main axes, and since its original foun

Níall McLaughlin Architects   Ireland   The new house is extended out from an existing cottage on the site. It is set in a landscape of exceptional natural beauty on the outskirts of the picturesque village of Goleen, a small rural area in County Cork, in the southwest corner of Ireland. T

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   In a greenbelt location less than an hour away from Central London, Piper’s End is a quiet town in the county of Hertfordshire. The undulating landscape of the area is dotted with laconic greenhouses, sheds, and farmhouses. The design of the new hous

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Founded in 1861 by Henry Wilde within St James’s Hall as a school of music and oratory, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) integrated institutions of different arts during the 20th century, becoming one of the most prestigious drama

Níall McLaughlin Architects   Ireland   This project is a house and art gallery for a private collector, situated in the garden of an existing terrace near the city center. To adapt to the proportions of the site, the building is conceived as a long, linear volume with a stone base and a f

Níall McLaughlin Architects   Ireland   The day care center was commissioned by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland to provide flexible respite care for people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and to offer support for affected families. The challenge in designing a care environment for thos

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Slightly hidden away from the busy junction at the corner of Church Street in the Kensington neighborhood, the Carmelite monastery needed to carry out various works to preserve and enlarge its facilities, adding a private chapel and a new sacristy. T

Níall McLaughlin Architects   Ireland   Located on O'Connell Street, in the heart of the southern Irish city of Limerick, the International Rugby Experience building is respectfully inserted amid historical constructions. Reaching a maximum height close to 34 meters and a total area of 2,1

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   A work of the London practice of Niall McLaughlin, the new library in the historical setting of Cambridge University has for 2022 won the Stirling Prize, awarded by Royal Institute od British Architects (RIBA). The ensemble of simple brick volumes re

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   Near Oxford (England), on the campus of Ripon Theological College, the Bishop Edward King Chapel replaces a 19th-century temple. In terms of form the chapel is the result of a number of influences. The interior space has clear echoes of English Gothi

Gustafson Porter   United Kingdom   The valley generated by the strong relief of the site is filled with the cultural and civic program defined in the competition brief, and is covered with a glass structure, evening out the terrain...

Níall McLaughlin Architects   United Kingdom   The project was the winner of a competition organized in 2002 for the construction of low-cost housing in Silvertown, a post-industrial area east of London. With the history and geology of the place as starting points, the design focussed on four the

After studying at University College Dublin, Níall McLaughlin moved to London, where in 1990 he set up his own office. Since then, he has developed a solid career, defined by a timeless language and an attentive dialogue with context. The latest issu

Adrian Forty   Níall McLaughlin, in response to the British historian’s questions, discourses on architecture’s relationship with time and with history…

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Irish philosopher Edmund Burke interpreted the spirit of England in the 18th century, and the Irish architect Níall McLaughlin has done the same in the 21st. Born in Geneva in 1962, educated at University College Dublin, and with an office in Lon

The New Library at Magdalene College Conferred every year by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Stirling Prize is a recognition of the best new buildings raised in the United Kingdom. The 2022 winner was the New Library at Magdalen

Architects are generally trained in the modern idea that their job is to build a new world, so they try to raise new buildings or even design entire parts of cities. But the profession today is more and more about building on what is already built, a