I was in Oxford to see New College’s new Gradel Quadrangle, but realised that I was invited last year to see the renovation of Gilbert Scott’s library at Exeter College.  It is many moons since I have been into Exeter, the college of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, and I had never seen its library, next to the Fellow’s Garden:-

It’s been very beautifully and thoughtfully renovated by Nex and Donald Insall, advised by Hannah Parham, a former student of the college, then working for Insall.  What was particularly impressive was the incredible quality of the woodwork throughout

It is on the long list for an RIBA award – good that such careful, well-considered and un-show-off work makes the cut.  The joinery definitely deserves a medal.