How do museums attract new audiences? With the National Portrait Gallery’s major re-modelling now shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2024, here’s a piece – on our sister site A Museum For Now – looking at how the refurbishment also involved a change in representation and audience perceptions, authored by the Gallery’s Head of Communications Poppy Andrews – here

21.08.2024

Sterling Gardens, developed by Nelson Land, is a new-build, multi-occupancy housing scheme in Newbury, Berkshire, comprised of 167 apartments, central landscaping and lower ground floor parking. Phase one of the scheme has now completed, encompassing 119 apartments in six of the eight residential blocks, featuring design development and implementation by Nissen Richards Studio. The scheme, which covers a 1-hectare site, also included s38 and s278 works to form a new link road and represents the practice’s largest ever build project to date.

18.08.2024

News just in that the re-modelling of the National Portrait Gallery has been shortlisted for The Stirling Prize, following RIBA London and RIBA National Award wins. The major undertaking to re-think the Gallery’s architecture and visitor journey, led by Jamie Fobert Architects with Purcell, was a joy to work on, with Nissen Richards Studio undertaking the project’s interpretation and permanent exhibition design.

This is the second year in a row that a project we have been part of has been shortlisted for The Stirling Prize. In 2023, it was The Courtauld Gallery, led by architects WWM, which went on to win the People’s Poll Award. And it’s the third year in a row one of our projects has been a winner at the RIBA National Awards. As well as the NPG and The Courtauld, we were lead architects – as well as interpretation / visitor engagement consultants – on the award-winning visitor centre and viewing tower at Sutton Hoo, a project completed for the National Trust.

All three projects were wonderful investigations into the cultural treasure of this country and we’re very proud of our involvement in all!

03.08.2024

To coincide with the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympics, a new exhibition we designed – ‘Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body’ – has opened at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The show runs until November and looks at the way sport and the human body were represented 100 years ago across art and culture, as well as giving a social history context to the story of some its stars.

27.07.2024