Níall was featured on Songs Of Praise which was aired on the 8th September. The programm filmed at St Paul’s Cathedral looks at Heavenly Designs and how Christopher Wren has been an inspiration to Níall. The program can be viewed on BBC iplayer until the 7th October. Click on this link to view the episode.
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.”