LIMERICK TALKS
OCTOBER 2015
On the 7th of October Niall gave 2 talks entitled ‘Creating Space for Worship’ and ‘Creating Space for Community’ at the invitation of Bishop Brendan Leahy in Limerick, in preparation for the Diocesan Synod in 2016.
ROWAN MOORE WRITES ABOUT BISHOP EDWARD KING CHAPEL IN THE OBSERVER
APRIL 2013
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.”