St Vincent Street church is a building of intrinsic civic significance, a role established by its clear typological forms: the tower and the temple. The tower positions the building in the city, as a signifier, and the temple provides for the city, as an interior and a space to gather.

Our approach to the church’s transformation follows this logic of its architecture: recognising a need and an opportunity present in the city around the church for public space, and answering that need by means of reinstating the public use of the building’s interior.