{"id":2530,"date":"2011-03-26T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T09:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2011-03-26T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T09:41:51","slug":"spence-gets-blue-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Spence gets blue plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sir Basil Spence (1907-1976) was commemorated\u00a0\u00a0on 23 March 2011 with an English Heritage blue plaque at his former home and office at 1 Canonbury Place, Islington, N1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A successful and eclectic modern architect, with a prodigious capacity for work, Spence \u2013 best known for his ground-breaking design for Coventry Cathedral \u2013 was among the leading British practitioners of his generation.<\/p>\n<p>At the unveiling, Anthony Blee \u2013 proposer of the plaque, practice partner of Spence, and husband to Gillian, Spence\u2019s daughter \u2013 spoke about the architect and his work, while Gillian unveiled the plaque.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The event took place on the 55th anniversary of the Foundation Stone laying by HM the Queen at Coventry Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EH News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/about\/news\/blue-plaque-for-sir-basil-spence\/\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Basil Spence (1907-1976) was commemorated\u00a0\u00a0on 23 March 2011 with an English Heritage blue plaque at his former home and office at 1 Canonbury Place, Islington, N1. &nbsp; A successful and eclectic modern architect, with a prodigious capacity for work, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-2530","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\/2530","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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}