The latest AJ focuses on the work of Níall McLaughlin Architects. We meet its founder on the site of the practice’s Auckland Castle visitor centre, and feature buildings studies of three of its recent projects: the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre at Oxford University; the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; and phase one of its additions for Cambridge University’s Jesus College.

PLUS The late architectural critic and historian Gavin Stamp remembered; why ever more practices are choosing employee ownership; and the winners and runners-up in the National Grid/RIBA gasholders ideas contest.