{"id":355455,"date":"2026-01-06T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355455\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:34:06","slug":"plans-remain-for-new-1250-seat-concert-hall-in-wimbledon-despite-lead-architect-frank-gehrys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355455\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans remain for new 1,250 seat concert hall in Wimbledon despite lead architect Frank Gehry&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gehry was a highly influential Canadian-American architect, best known for his unconventional post-modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/designs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">designs<\/a>, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The WCHT and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/merton-council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merton Council<\/a> passed on their condolences, with Councillor Andrew Judge, Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainable Development, paying tribute to Gehry\u2019s involvement in the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gehry was a highly influential Canadian-American architect, best known for his unconventional post-modern designs, including the Guggenheim Museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,7112,1120,53253,96,136752,727,136753,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-355455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-concerts","tag-design","tag-designs","tag-entertainment","tag-merton-council","tag-morrisons","tag-music-venues","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355455","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=355455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}