{"id":1243,"date":"2008-05-18T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2008-05-18T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T13:30:43","slug":"design-award-2008-stroud-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/2008\/05\/18\/design-award-2008-stroud-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Award 2008 &#8211; Stroud College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/pics\/stroudcollegebyHenri4.png?resize=500%2C353\" alt=\"Stroud College's new building.  Photo by Henri Kyriacou: www.henrikyriacou.com\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" \/>Every year the Stroud Civic Society nominates a building for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stroudtown.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Stroud Town Council\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>Design Award.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 the nomination went to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Stroud College\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>for their new building.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Ellis Williams Architects of Warrington, this is an elegant, understated building with echoes of the white modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s.\u00a0 The spatial geometries &#8211; a central drum with curving, staggered wings &#8211; the varied facades and the artfully arranged pattern of black-framed vertical and horizontal windows, contribute to a very pleasing overall design, which combines strong three-dimensional volumes with elegantly ordered and detailed facades.<\/p>\n<p>This is a distinctive building without any superficial trimmings or fashionable glitz.\u00a0 It makes a change from all that weird, ugly, postmodern stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Stroud Civic Society nominates a building for the\u00a0Stroud Town Council\u00a0Design Award. In 2008 the nomination went to\u00a0Stroud College\u00a0for their new building. Designed by Ellis Williams Architects of Warrington, this is an elegant, understated building with echoes of the white modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s.\u00a0 The[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroudcivicsociety.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}