{"id":311297,"date":"2026-02-22T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311297\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:41:09","slug":"he-had-such-an-infectious-energy-i-always-expected-hugh-to-just-be-there-forever-home-of-the-year-judge-amanda-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311297\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He had such an infectious energy. I always expected Hugh to just be there forever.\u2019 Home of the Year judge Amanda Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The architect talks about the loss of her friend and colleague\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amanda Bone has her own architecture firm. Photo: Barry McCall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SF AMANDA B_18004.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Amanda Bone has her own architecture firm. Photo: Barry McCall<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Amanda Bone heard that Hugh Wallace had died, she didn\u2019t quite believe it. Even now, months later, she catches herself reaching for the familiar rhythm of him: receiving his phone calls and the quick, outrageous remarks that would have her laughing \u201cin about 10 seconds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cHe had such an infectious energy,\u201d she says, sitting across from me with a large pot of camomile between us. \u201cI always expected Hugh to just be there forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The architect talks about the loss of her friend and colleague Amanda Bone has her own architecture firm.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29575,93,61,60,6992,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-311297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-donal-lynch","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine","13":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}