{"id":293680,"date":"2025-12-01T20:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293680\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:57:05","slug":"tv-architect-hugh-wallace-dies-aged-68-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293680\/","title":{"rendered":"TV architect Hugh Wallace dies, aged 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was a founding partner of architectural firm Douglas Wallace Consultants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement on their website said: &#8220;It is with deep sadness and shock that we share the news that our beloved Hugh Wallace. We are heartbroken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His passion, creativity and warmth touched colleagues, audiences, and friends across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Miche\u00e1l Martin said he was &#8220;deeply saddened&#8221; to hear of Mr Wallace&#8217;s passing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin said Mr Wallace&#8217;s &#8220;advocacy for good architecture, coupled with his wonderful communication skills, performed a wonderful public service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">T\u00e1naiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Harris said her was a &#8220;character larger than life with a booming voice who made such an important contribution to Irish life by providing entertaining programmes but also in teaching us the importance of restoration and architecture&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was a founding partner of architectural firm Douglas Wallace Consultants. In a statement on their website said:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-293680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293680","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=293680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}