{"id":47489,"date":"2026-07-28T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47489"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:44:59","slug":"ihbc-hesprs-news-from-the-sector-bd-review-of-the-royal-festival-hall-a-living-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47489","title":{"rendered":"IHBC HESPR\u2019s \u2018News from the Sector\u2019: BD review of the \u2018Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

IHBC\u2019s heritage business register HESPR<\/a> \u2013 our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition<\/a> quality assurance scheme for heritage services \u2013 emails members weekly \u2018News and Tender Alerts<\/a>\u2019, and this week features a <\/u><\/em>Building Design (BD)<\/u><\/em> review of the \u2018Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon\u2019.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jon Wright writes of Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon\u2019 for Building Design:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘This handsome book, edited by Eleanor Jolliffe and Sandy Rattray and published to mark the [75th] anniversary, is the most comprehensive account of the building yet assembled, and it does justice, finally, to a work of architecture that has too often been celebrated without being properly understood’…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘The Royal Festival Hall was the sole permanent building of the 1951 Festival of Britain \u2013 its last surviving remnant’….[and] was an achievement of structural invention as much as architectural vision….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Dan Cruickshank\u2019s foreword frames the hall as a tangible expression of a burning desire to create a better society after the destruction of the Second World War, Wallpaper*<\/a> and that social programme runs as a constant current through everything that follows.’

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IHBC\u2019s heritage business register HESPR \u2013 our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services \u2013 emails members weekly \u2018News and Tender Alerts\u2019, and this week features a Building Design (BD) review of the \u2018Royal Festival Hall: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,18,29,601],"class_list":["post-47489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-business","tag-conservation","tag-heritage","tag-hespr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47489","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47490,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47489\/revisions\/47490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}