On the 21st September Niall will be speaking at the 2017 AIA Colorado Practice + Design Conference in Keystone, Colorado. The annual conference is to inspire and educate the architectural community, celebrate excellence in design, and explore highly relevant practice topics through a series of insightful presentations on a wide range of issues.
Architecture critic Rowan Moore has written a review of the Bishop Edward King Chapel with the title “The Answers to their Prayers” that was published in the Observer Magazine. The article touches on the broader themes of the interpretation and appropriation of religious symbolism in architecture, and in this context praises the paradoxical nature of the chapel; “It is…heavy and light, a bastion and a boat, a wall and a drape. It has presence, but doesn’t dominate.” Describing the form and materiality of the building Moore writes, “The building is crafted and considered: it makes ideas physical: it has intentions and carries them out in its space and matter.”