{"id":154199,"date":"2025-06-03T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154199\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:16:09","slug":"fortress-sculpture-or-place-of-worship-a-tour-of-scotlands-modernist-churches-in-pictures-art-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154199\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortress, sculpture or place of worship? A tour of Scotland\u2019s modernist churches \u2013 in pictures | Art and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St John Ogilvie\u2019s Roman Catholic church, Edinburgh (1970)Sir Frank Mears &amp; Partners were appointed as architects to design Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, with construction beginning in 1967. The Wester Hailes Association of Tenants formed soon after. Their newsletter reported: \u2018A primary school, a shop and lots of houses \u2013 that about sums up Wester Hailes. We need a secondary school quickly, we need a community centre, nursery or pre-school facilities for the very young children and their mothers, a club of some kind for our teenagers, more shops, a post office, letter boxes. You name it, we haven\u2019t got it\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"gallery__credit\" itemprop=\"author\">Photograph: Matthew Dransfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St John Ogilvie\u2019s Roman Catholic church, Edinburgh (1970)Sir Frank Mears &amp; Partners were appointed as architects to design&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[16466,65619,3444,748,2766,4884,2249,8547,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-art-and-design","9":"tag-art-and-design-books","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-photography","15":"tag-religion","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114618209651909633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}