The founders of Dixon Jones have spoken of their sadness as they are forced to wind up the influential practice they established 30 years ago.

Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones were warned by their accountant they faced a “mountain of debt” if they did not close the firm which was responsible for some of the UK’s most prestigious projects including the transformation of the Royal Opera House, the National Portrait Gallery and the replacement of cars by fountains in Somerset House’s courtyard.

Half a dozen people have been made redundant, while a further five are continuing to work on the practice’s ongoing projects after being taken on by those schemes’ contractors or clients.

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