I went to the award ceremony for Níall McLaughlin’s RIBA Gold Medal, an impressive occasion, not least for the number of younger architects who seemed admiring of McLaughlin’s extreme sensitivity to issues of architectural history and symbolism, as evident in his introductory remarks on archaeology and Gottfried Semper.

He started by showing a project I hadn’t spotted before – a small garden pavilion in Wandsworth:-

And a very beautiful project in Leiden:-

They showed a rather beautiful film about his work which gives you a very good sense of him as well as his work:-