{"id":398893,"date":"2026-01-30T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398893\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:34:08","slug":"national-glass-centre-architect-says-building-should-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398893\/","title":{"rendered":"National Glass Centre architect says building should be saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;There&#8217;s no reason why it couldn&#8217;t adapt. It&#8217;s flexible, the interior could be moved around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesman for the University of Sunderland said it had commissioned a &#8220;full, up-to-date, independent building survey&#8221; in 2022, where external specialists concluded that a multimillion-pound investment would be required to address the longstanding problems with the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The total cost of all the recommended remedial work was, based on independent advice, a minimum of \u00a314m, and more likely nearer \u00a345m,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The report suggested there may be alternative replacement roofing options which could potentially reduce the total cost by between \u00a32.5m-\u00a34.5m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, after careful consideration, the Board of Governors decided that none of the options outlined in the building survey report were affordable given that the bulk of the university&#8217;s income comes from student tuition fees and is spent on its core priority activities of learning, teaching, research, innovation, and knowledge exchange.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: &#8220;There&#8217;s no reason why it couldn&#8217;t adapt. It&#8217;s flexible, the interior could be moved around.&#8221; A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398894,"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-398893","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\/398893","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=398893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}