MJ Long (1939-2018)

MJ Long

Architect best known for British Library submitted last scheme three days before her death

The architect MJ Long has died aged 79.

She had been ill for a while but was working right up to the end, submitting a planning application for the restoration of a Cornish artists’ studio three days before her death on Monday.

Long was born in the US and studied at Yale before moving to the UK in 1964 where she joined forces with the man who became her husband, Colin St John Wilson.

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