The project won a 2019 Faith and Form Award.

When built in the late 1950’s this place of worship was a stunning example of the post-war cathedral: narrow and tall, boxy and orthogonal, starkly crafted with stone walls and thick, deck ceiling. But the ornament that brought human scale to previous cathedral architecture was gone. Stained-glass was limited to being compressed in shallow ambulatories under immense stone wall. The colored light flanking rigid ranks of attendees also compressed in an inhumane volume. This church was an example of sublime design meant to underscore the majesty of the divine. So much so that the design was inhumane for the people gathered in communal worship.

To allow visibility from the last pew, the altar platform rose off the nave floor by six steps, leaving a minimal space to navigate the altar. The large marble altar, pressed closely to the reredos wall pinched and dwarfed the clergy against the massive reredos. Eastward expanses of glass flanking the platform baked liturgists during worship. In this excessive light AV technology was impossible. In contrast to the front of worship, the nave was devoid of natural light. This combined with insufficient lighting left a darkened void, also lost between stone and wood.

The renovated platform has been lowered and expanded with flexible furnishings. The Platform is fully accessible by ramping.

The towering reredos wall is replaced by eucalyptus panels and inset ribbons of swirling art glass.