Breathing

About this work

Breathing is a memorial sculpture situated on the roof of the Peel Wing of BBC Broadcasting House, in London. The sculpture commemorates journalists and associated staff who have been killed whilst carrying out their work. It consists of a 10-metre (32 ft) high glass and steel column, with a torch-like, inverted spire shape, decorated with words. It also features a poem by James Fenton. At night the sculpture gently glows, then at 10 pm every evening the memorial shines a beam of light into the sky for 30 minutes, which reaches up to 900 metres. It was reported in 2012 that the BBC was not turning the sculpture's lights on as often as it should be.

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