{"id":143722,"date":"2025-09-17T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143722\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:21:08","slug":"hawkins-brown-lops-four-storeys-off-manchester-met-library-in-cost-cutting-redesign-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143722\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawkins Brown lops four storeys off Manchester Met library in cost-cutting redesign | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline meta\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/tom-lowe\/4503134.bio\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Lowe<\/a>2025-09-17T11:50:00<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hawkins Brown MMU library 1\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2013377_hawkinsbrownmmulibrary1_983671.jpg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"67\" class=\"lazyloaded\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Landmark 13-storey scheme approved last year to be resubmitted as nine storeys with its floorspace almost halved<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hawkins Brown\u2019s proposals for a landmark new library for Manchester Metropolitan University have been cut by four storeys and the scheme\u2019s floorspace almost halved in an effort to cut costs.<\/p>\n<p>The original \u00a390m replacement for the university\u2019s All Saints Library was approved in February last year. It would have risen to 13 storeys with around 22,000sq m of floorspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Tom Lowe2025-09-17T11:50:00 Landmark 13-storey scheme approved last year to be resubmitted as nine storeys with its floorspace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-143722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}