{"id":41699,"date":"2024-12-17T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41699"},"modified":"2024-12-16T17:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:13:43","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-public-doorstep-campaign-to-save-centenary-building-as-site-set-to-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41699","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (public) doorstep\u2019: Campaign to save Centenary Building as site set to be demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Centenary_Building_Salford_Skip88_commons_wiki_021224.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Centenary_Building_Salford_Skip88_commons_wiki_021224.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41604\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Centenary_Building.jpg\">Centenary Building, Salford<\/a>\u00a0by Skip88,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>\u00a0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An appeal has been launched to save the award winning Centenary building after it was announced that it would be demolished, reports <em>Salford Now<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>Salford Now<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The building that won the prestigious Stirling Prize award in 1996, which declared it the UK\u2019s best new building, has struggled to find permanent inhabitants since. From 2016 it hasn\u2019t been used for its intended purpose\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Campaigns Director Oli Marshall said: \u2018It\u2019s hugely disappointing that the commendable previous proposals for conversion to a school or for community use have floundered\u2026.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stirling award, received by the building 28 years ago, is given out to architects that have made the biggest impact on the past year\u2019s\u2026 architecture. \u2026 \u2018\u2026 Once this building was celebrated, and now they want to demolish it, the real kicker is that such a young building should be demolished.\u2019<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/salfordnow.co.uk\/2024\/11\/20\/campaign-to-save-centenary-building-as-site-set-to-be-demolished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For background see the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=41603\">IHBC NewsBlog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration:\u00a0Centenary Building, Salford\u00a0by Skip88,\u00a0CC BY-SA 3.0\u00a0, via Wikimedia Commons An appeal has been launched to save the award winning Centenary building after it was announced that it would be demolished, reports Salford Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,44,6,18,9,29,16],"class_list":["post-41699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-appeal","tag-award","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-government","tag-heritage","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41699","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41700,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41699\/revisions\/41700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}