{"id":439730,"date":"2026-02-22T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439730\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:22:07","slug":"hastings-council-seeks-public-art-ideas-for-bottle-alley-columns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439730\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings council seeks public art ideas for Bottle Alley columns"},"content":{"rendered":"

An appeal has gone out to find artists to come up with ideas to liven up a 1930s promenade on Hastings seafront.<\/p>\n

Bottle Alley, designed by borough engineer Sidney Little, is a covered walkway with 113 concrete columns.<\/p>\n

Hastings Borough Council said a current art installation, Wavelengths, had been in place since 2017, but the paintwork now needed “revisiting” and it was using the opportunity to seek new designs, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The walkway has “dramatic seasonal variation, external<\/a>“, the council added, with intense summer sunlight and high footfall, harsh winter storms with salt spray and damp, and shifting light levels all year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An appeal has gone out to find artists to come up with ideas to liven up a 1930s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439731,"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-439730","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\/439730","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=439730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}