{"id":678150,"date":"2026-01-06T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678150\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:34:10","slug":"plans-remain-for-new-1250-seat-concert-hall-in-wimbledon-despite-lead-architect-frank-gehrys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678150\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans remain for new 1,250 seat concert hall in Wimbledon despite lead architect Frank Gehry&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gehry was a highly influential Canadian-American architect, best known for his unconventional post-modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/designs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designs<\/a>, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The WCHT and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/merton-council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merton Council<\/a> passed on their condolences, with Councillor Andrew Judge, Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainable Development, paying tribute to Gehry\u2019s involvement in the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gehry was a highly influential Canadian-American architect, best known for his unconventional post-modern designs, including the Guggenheim Museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,30365,4022,136005,77,105485,1797,62984,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-678150","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-concerts","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-designs","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-merton-council","15":"tag-morrisons","16":"tag-music-venues","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115849360979965123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678150","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=678150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}