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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.”

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NIALL MCLAUGHLIN SITS ON KING’S COLLEGE LONDON’S SELECTION PANEL

MARCH 2012

Niall McLaughlin has been invited to chair the selection panel for the competition redevelop the Quadrangle at King’s College London’s historic Strand Campus. He will act as the RIBA architect advisor on the jury panel to pick the winning proposal from among the international field of entries.