{"id":360570,"date":"2026-01-09T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360570\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:37:07","slug":"wimbledon-concert-hall-plan-still-on-track-despite-gehrys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360570\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon concert hall plan still on track despite Gehry&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Proposals for the state-of-the-art concert hall in Wimbledon were unveiled in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Merton Council agreed an exclusivity period with the Wimbledon Concert Hall Trust  to develop the venue on the council-owned Hartfield Road car park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proposed 1,500 seat venue will also host jazz and rock concerts and will include  a roof garden and spaces for community arts initiatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The venue will be funded with private investment, with naming rights available to major benefactors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wimbledon was chosen for its transport links, global name recognition from the tennis championships, and its existing cultural scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anthony Wilkinson, who chairs the project and is also the founder of the Wimbledon International Festival, said the project could help Wimbledon grow into a cultural quarter for south west London and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proposals for the state-of-the-art concert hall in Wimbledon were unveiled in 2019. Merton Council agreed an exclusivity period&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360571,"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-360570","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\/360570","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=360570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}