Architecture critic Trevor Boddy asserts that the design appeals regardless of religious affiliation:Whether one is pagan (natural vistas provide the "stained glass" for worshippers on the bench-pews), Roman Catholic (this is a fully consecrated church), aesthete (the design is a chef d'oeuvre of minimalism) or engineer (with a steel vertical tie-rod at centre, the foursquare roof acts structurally as an innovative space frame).