Legacy

The Olympics finished yesterday, and today the talk is all about ‘legacy’. Reminds me of the question typically asked the day after a new building gets opened: “Well that was good – now what difference is it going to make?”

Shiny photographs of new architecture without people only serve to underline the focus on project completion. Job done. Well done. And we should never take that achievement for granted.  But the purpose of buildings is not to be built, but to create  . . . a legacy.

So, perhaps the real test for any new school bulding is: what happens next?