The Tapestry Building in King’s Cross has been shortlisted for a New London Architecture Award in the Residential Category. The awards look to showcase the best of architecture and development in the Capital. The residential project is part of the large scale redevelopment of King’s Cross in a joint venture between developer Argent, London and Continental Railways and DHL Supply Chain.
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.”