Queen Elizabeth Gate

[2] The centre piece, featuring a red lion (England) and a white unicorn (Scotland), was designed by sculptor David Wynne.

Her life spanned most of the century and this is represented by a flow from formal symmetry at the base of the gates upwards to an increasing freedom of line at the top.

[3] Another architect, Richard Rogers, described it as "romantic candyfloss", and Viscount Linley, a grandson of the Queen Mother's, was reported as saying that he "absolutely loathed" the work.

[1] The then arts minister, Lord St John of Fawsley, said they were "full of joy, strength and courage, like the personage in whose honour they have been created".

[4] There were also initial concerns that the metal was rusting[citation needed] due to a misunderstanding of the nature of the gate's colouring which was in fact a deliberate creation of chromium oxides with the application of heat.