ABSTRACT
The broader concern expanded subsequently to embrace many varieties and different scales of spatial planning, some of which lacked any architectural element at all. Planning commissions were potentially the gateway to much more lucrative architectural work. The individual architect within this organization would not become rich, but he could exercise responsibility for his own work. William Graham Holford was very much more primus than pares within the firm which bore his name, and it was probably because his colleagues were reluctant to force the issue with him that organization and finance were not put on a formal footing until 1960. The enclosure of the parade ground and the achievement of a ‘collegiate feel’ is very successfully achieved: this is the sort of architecture which because it is unspectacular, mannerly and dignified, achieves little wider fame. The architecture is able to survive the tension between itself and the new glass the interior ‘achieves greatness by means of uncompromising consistency’.
