{"id":18122,"date":"2018-02-16T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=18122"},"modified":"2018-02-16T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:53:14","slug":"janet-street-porters-extroverted-postmodern-home-listed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=18122","title":{"rendered":"Janet Street-Porter\u2019s \u2018extroverted\u2019 postmodern home listed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TheSpaceswebsite160218.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18123\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TheSpaceswebsite160218.png\" alt=\"building\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a>The Postmodern former home of journalist Janet Street-Porter in London has won Grade II-listed status for its \u2018wholly untraditional\u2019 and \u2018extroverted\u2019 aesthetic.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Spaces writes:<\/p>\n<p>Piers Gough \u2013 principal of CZWG \u2013 designed the Britton Street townhouse for Street-Porter in 1987, describing it as a \u2018portrait\u2019 of the outspoken TV personality. The pair met as students at the Architecture Association (although Porter went on to a career in the media) and shared a passion for the provocative Postmodern style \u2018It is a celebratory scheme,\u2019 Gough told the Architect\u2019s Journal. \u2018It\u2019s idiosyncratic; it looks like its owner. It was not an expensive building but it carries a visual punch.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Says Historic England: \u2018The overlaid interlinking diamond frameworks across the fa\u00e7ade create a wholly untraditional aesthetic, to which the materials, chosen due to happenstance and budget, contribute.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Street-Porter sold the Clerkenwell property in 2001 and commissioned David Adjaye to build her new residence nearby\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thespaces.com\/2018\/02\/06\/janet-street-porter-postmodern-house-listed-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postmodern former home of journalist Janet Street-Porter in London has won Grade II-listed status for its \u2018wholly untraditional\u2019 and \u2018extroverted\u2019 aesthetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18124,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions\/18124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}