{"id":314072,"date":"2025-08-03T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314072\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:32:09","slug":"bradford-city-park-up-for-test-of-time-architecture-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314072\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford City Park up for &#8216;test of time&#8217; architecture award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project, by Gillespies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-bradford-west-yorkshire-17499060\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost more than \u00a324m<\/a> to develop, and opened in 2012 \u2013 transforming a large section of Bradford city centre, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then it has hosted festivals, live performances and art installations, and is home to Bradford&#8217;s annual Literature Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opening event for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/topics\/cz9l1ke7v17t\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bradford&#8217;s year as City of Culture<\/a>, Rise, attracted 20,000 people when it was staged in the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has also been used as a filming location on several occasions, most recently appearing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd9qvzdegk1o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC One drama Virdee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City Park will face competition from Crystal Palace Park Caf\u00e9 and the Stratford Town Centre Link.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Architecture Today said the park had &#8220;helped unlock further regeneration&#8221;, played a &#8220;significant role&#8221; in the City of Culture bid, supported local economic activity and hosted more than 50 events annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The award ceremony is due to take place on 17 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The project, by Gillespies, cost more than \u00a324m to develop, and opened in 2012 \u2013 transforming a large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314072","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-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114963909600944890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314072","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=314072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}