Níall's lecture Taking Time that was organised by Architecture on Stage at the Barbican has been reviewed by Yuki Sumner for Recessed Space. Yuki describes the lecture as "weaving together philosophy, art, and architecture, urging us to reconsider the way buildings bear the weight of time". The article acn be read here on the Recessed Space website.
Author and Cambridge academic Mary Ann Steane has written on the Chapel’s “lyrical embodiment of liturgy and light” in an article published in Architecture Today. Dr. Steane previously included the Carmelite Monastery project in her book ‘The Architecture of Light’. The article in Architecture Today elucidates on the Chapel’s filtering of natural light through the internal timber structure, as a means of tying the building to its surroundings.
“On a sunny day the upper surfaces become an animated embroidery of light and shadow in tune with the surrounding windblown foliage, but even on a dull day the way that light is held within the tall enclosure is critical to the project’s narrative of tethering.”