{"id":9946,"date":"2026-03-23T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/?p=9946"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:14:52","slug":"royal-gold-medal-2026-lecture-niall-mclaughlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/events\/royal-gold-medal-2026-lecture-niall-mclaughlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Gold Medal 2026 Lecture \u2013 N\u00edall McLaughlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background: #f6f6f6; border-left: 4px solid #97D422; padding: 16px 20px; margin: 24px 0; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 6px 0;\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> London<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 30 April 2026, 6:30pm to 10pm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Royal Institute of British Architects presents its annual Royal Gold Medal Lecture, this year honouring N\u00edall McLaughlin, an Irish architect whose London-based practice has consistently foregrounded craft, material, and social meaning over three decades. The evening marks the formal presentation of one of architecture&#8217;s highest honours.<\/p>\n<p>The programme opens at 7pm with the premiere of a newly commissioned documentary celebrating McLaughlin&#8217;s body of work, followed by a keynote lecture in which the architect reflects on his practice and its guiding principles. British Sign Language interpretation is provided throughout, and a livestream option is available for those unable to travel.<\/p>\n<p>The event takes place at the Ondaatje Theatre, Royal Geographical Society, South Kensington. In-person tickets are \u00a325, with discounted rates for RIBA members and students; livestream access starts at \u00a35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N\u00edall McLaughlin delivers his Royal Gold Medal keynote lecture at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 30 April 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,19,43,56,80],"tags":[],"location":[71],"class_list":["post-9946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-events","category-events","category-industry","category-talks-panels-and-lectures","category-uk-events","location-london"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/10715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9946"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/location?post=9946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}