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KEY TO THE CITY

Oxford Terrace Baptist Church complex

ANDREW BARRIE LAB, 2017 & 2023

This coherent collection of mixed-use buildings illustrates the capacity of architecture to create community. The church as a village is the driving concept behind a welcoming complex that provides spaces for worship and music, offices for social services, venues for public hire, a café and, since May of last year, a collection of apartments and terraced houses. A controlled palette of colours and materials ties

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