This dragon carries the elegance of design, not the erosion of time. Drawn from the winged figure above Norwich’s Royal Arcade, the Skipper Snap is a tribute to beauty made deliberate. It is not weather-worn. It is not crumbling. It is intact by intent.
Its lines are clean. Its form is proud. It does not hide. Skipper is a dragon born not of nature, but of vision. A creature shaped by one man’s belief that architecture could be joyful. That buildings could lift a city’s gaze.
It stands in memory of George Skipper, the architect behind Norwich’s Royal Arcade, Jarrolds, and so much more. August was his month. This is his dragon.
