We have both been mourning the death of Sir Michael Hopkins, a good friend to us both, who I first got to know when he and Patty were the masterplanners for the V&A in the mid-1980s, brought in by David Mellor and Terence Conran to bring some order to the immensity and complexity of its Victorian layout. Not long afterwards, they won the competition for the Glyndebourne Opera House, a brilliant and beautiful project which fits so well in its bucolic surroundings, characteristic of their work in combining the latest technology with the most traditional materials. Over the years, I have visited many of their projects and greatly admire how different each can be, from the simplicity of The Round Building at Hathersage (his obituary in the Guardian is by Fiona MacCarthy, whose husband, David Mellor commissioned it) to the Piranesian complexity of the subterranean depths of Westminster underground station. He remained admirably un-self-important, happiest bumbling around on a small tractor on his estate at Blackheath or on a boat out on the river. We will miss him.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/19/sir-michael-hopkins-obituary