With his Church of Christ the King in Turners Cross, Cork, the American prairie school architect F. Barry Byrne helped write a new gospel for international church design which would manifest itself decades later in new design directives from Vatican II. Byrne later acknowledged it as his best work, and Frank Lloyd Wright apparently acknowledged Byrne as his best pupil. Its awesome use of concrete, combined with space-age forms and dimensions, were ground-breaking for that time, and have lost none of their impact almost three-quarters of a century later.
