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'In my Father’s house are many rooms' John 14:2
The idea of a room for everyone is open to multiple interpretations. Driving the recently completed renovation of the church of St John-at Hackney has always been a vision of lucent, atmospherically charged space that can accommodate a range of sacred and secular gatherings over the course of a single week, where each successive population will feel authentically at home.
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Stefan Dold, Max Gleeson, Francisco Marques, John Pawson