Breathing (memorial sculpture)

Breathing is a memorial sculpture situated on the roof of the Peel Wing of BBC Broadcasting House, in London.

[1] It consists of a 10-metre (32 ft) high glass and steel column, with a torch-like, inverted spire shape, decorated with words.

At night the sculpture gently glows, then at 10 pm every evening (coinciding with the broadcast of the BBC Ten O'Clock News) the memorial shines a beam of light into the sky for 30 minutes, which reaches up to 900 meters (3,000 feet).

The shape of the sculpture is inspired by the spire of the adjoining All Souls Church, and the radio mast on the roof of Broadcasting House.

The architecture critic Ellis Woodman, of Building Design magazine, called Breathing the "most misconceived public artwork in London since the Queen Mother's gates".