It was a beautiful autumn day for the funeral of Nick Grimshaw in St. Margaret’s, Burnham Norton, a remote Norfolk church in the middle of fields with a distant view of the sea.

What I particularly valued was hearing about what he was like to work for, so trusting and supportive of younger architects in his practice, allowing and encouraging them to flourish, including industrial designers which was a strand in the practice I did not know about. And he obviously treated his practice like an extended family. You don’t often hear what architects are like to work for. Nick was one of the best:-