In my humble view what makes Britain great is our history. We have such an incredible heritage that it is literally the foundation stone of everything we design and build today. I’m always conscious that what we build today is the history of tomorrow.
In 2014 it was recorded as being the first year, in the history of mankind, that throughout the world more people would live in our cities than live in the countryside. For millions of years we have been rural dwellers, but now the majority of the planet are town and city dwellers. Before the Industrial Age we were, in effect, a nation of farmers. Not anymore.