Light spirit: fusing the secular and metaphysical, this oratory on a campus is a modern response to the numinous.

From: The Architectural Review | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Finch, Paul | Copyright information

The combining of sacred and secular in a complex of buildings is a familiar architectural programme, and one that encourages a creative combination of the functional and the spiritual. In this instance, the judges were impressed by the calmness and serenity of the oratory space, with its shades of Tadao Ando, not to mention Le Corbusier, in its exploitation of concrete and varying types of light.

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