{"id":684139,"date":"2026-01-09T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:07:09","slug":"wimbledon-concert-hall-plan-still-on-track-despite-gehrys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684139\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon concert hall plan still on track despite Gehry&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Proposals for the state-of-the-art concert hall in Wimbledon were unveiled in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Merton Council agreed an exclusivity period with the Wimbledon Concert Hall Trust  to develop the venue on the council-owned Hartfield Road car park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proposed 1,500 seat venue will also host jazz and rock concerts and will include  a roof garden and spaces for community arts initiatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The venue will be funded with private investment, with naming rights available to major benefactors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wimbledon was chosen for its transport links, global name recognition from the tennis championships, and its existing cultural scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anthony Wilkinson, who chairs the project and is also the founder of the Wimbledon International Festival, said the project could help Wimbledon grow into a cultural quarter for south west London and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proposals for the state-of-the-art concert hall in Wimbledon were unveiled in 2019. Merton Council agreed an exclusivity period&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-684139","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\/115864354342097094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684139","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=684139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}