The fibreglass relief decorating the Elim Pentecostal church in Halifax, mediates between the striking modern church building (an orthogonal concrete structure raised on a plinth, capped by a circular, sharply ridged roof with a conical steel-frame spire) and the more non-descript flat-roofed church hall. With its interplay of curved and angular, convex and concave, textured and smooth forms, it has the air of being attached to the building rather than integral to its construction. Positioned almost like a sliding screen beside the main entrance, it signals the modernity and outward-facing nature of this Christian denomination. (Sophie Carter)

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