Diane Haigh

Diane Margaret Haigh (2 May 1949 – 31 July 2022) was a British architect and faculty member at the University of Cambridge. She designed the renovation of the Royal Festival Hall in 2007 as well as numerous other refurbishments of historical buildings.

Early life Haigh was born in 1949 in Kendal. Her father, Donald Haigh, was an architect. She studied architecture at Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1971, and later completed a postgraduate diploma at Cambridge's Darwin College. She married William Fawcett, a fellow architect whom she had met at Cambridge and with whom she often worked.

Career In 1982, Haigh, Fawcett and their two young children moved to Hong Kong, where Haigh taught at the University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture until 1985. They returned to Cambridge in 1986 and Haigh began working for Freeland Rees Roberts; her work there included the restoration of part of Thorpe Hall in Peterborough for use as a hospice. At Allies and Morrison, she led projects including the refurbishment of Queen's House to meet modern accessibility standards (1999), the conversion of Baillie Scott's Blackwell house into an art gallery (2001), and refurbishment of the Royal Observatory's Astronomy Centre (2007) and the Royal Festival Hall (2007).