Brick & Wonder Pro and Council members are invited to a private tour of St. John the Divine.

Join Nicolas Kemper, publisher of New York Review of Architecture, for a private vertical tour of St. John the Divine. The tour goes up 124 feet following the stairs and platforms built into the armature of the cathedral’s nave, ending on the roof. It is possibly one of the most riveting sequences of architectural spaces in New York. Kemper has led occasional tours of the cathedral since writing an essay about it, “How to build a Cathedral,” in 2019. Begun 132 years and still unfinished, he enjoys sharing and discussing the cathedral’s story, which includes a slew of New York rivalries, the origins of both the skyscraper and gothic architecture, and lessons in hubris, institution building, and of course project management.