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McGregor Coxall also announced the appointment of Steven Kennedy as the new UK design director. An award-winning architect with over two decades in the industry including as principal at Grimshaw, Kennedy brings a wealth of experience to his new role. His portfolio includes significant projects such as the Oman Botanic Garden and YTL Arena in Bristol.
It is a film classic that garnered 11 Oscar nominations, but David Lean’s adaptation of A Passage To India faced strong opposition from the executors of author E. M. Forster’s literary estate. Newly unearthed letters reveal that after reading the script, senior academics at Cambridge University’s King’s College, which controls the rights to Forster’s works, had a ‘major worry’ about Lean’s finale, believing he was trying to over-simplify the complex tale of sexual and racial tensions set against the backdrop of the British Raj. The original novel, published in 1924, explores t...