Saturday, 17 June 2017

Robert Maguire & Keith Murray by Gerald Adler



St Paul's Bow Common is a truly iconic Church, at least for those who take an interest in the liturgical life of the Church of England. It was the starting point of the partnership of Maguire and Murray, and Adler provides an engaging account of what they did next over the following half century or so.

Many of the values they seeked to embody, about a quality of provision, about a simplicity, are very attractive. This is an account of the buildings that they built, but it might have been good to hear more of the users experience, to hear about what these buildings had become in the intervening years. Have the hopes of providing spaces that enabled healthy community life been realised?

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