On the 15th of January to celebrate the West Quad building reaching its highest point, the College held a ‘topping out’ ceremony. The new Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Professor Richardson marked the occasion by filling cement on the building’s rooftop. Professor Richardson, remarked on the use of ‘creativity in such a constrained space and sensitivity to the surroundings’.
The April edition of the Architectural Review features an article on the Bishop Edward King Chapel, written by Peter Salter. The article contains images by Dennis Gilbert, with a detailed view of the branched timber structure on the magazine’s cover. The review describes the Chapel as a “subtle synthesis of nature and the sacred” with Salter concluding that the project is a reflective and sensitive response to the “spiritual challenge of this commission.”