Niall McLaughlin bags top gong at Wood Awards for Bishop Edward King Chapel

摘要

Niall McLaughlin Architects has scooped the top prize in the 2013 Wood Awards for the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Bishop Edward King Chapel in Oxford. The project was praised for its 'attention to detail, careful use of materials and elegant curved glulam columns and beams'. Chairman of the judges, Michael Morrison of Purcell, said: 'Niall McLaughlin's Bishop Edward King Chapel is a stunning and worthy Gold Award winner. It embodies the Wood Awards' celebration of excellence in design and craftsmanship in wood, and even exceeds the hope that the building might be "a work of art which would touch the spirit".'