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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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JOANNA KARATZAS BECOMES AN ASSOCIATE

FEBRUARY 2013

We offer our congratulations to Joanna Karatzas who has been made an Associate. She joins Tim Allen-Booth, and Tilo Guenther in this leadership role within the practice. Joanna joined Niall McLaughlin Architects in 2007 and has worked on a range of projects including the Bishop Edward King Chapel in Oxford, a private house in Hampshire and the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter masterplan.