Niall McLaughlin Architects are delighted that our project The Fishing Hut in Hampshire has made the shortlist for the Stephen Lawrence Prize. The prize is to award the best examples of projects that have a construction budget of less than £1million and was set up in the memory of Stephen Lawrence.
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.”