{"id":6704,"date":"2012-06-01T00:03:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2012-06-01T00:03:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T23:03:48","slug":"lift-and-lights-at-the-county-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6704","title":{"rendered":"Lift and Lights at the County Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12053101.jpg\" alt=\"Lift and Lights\" \/><br \/>\nBefore getting to the magnificent lighting of the Old County Hall I should perhaps mention the lift.<\/p>\n<p>This was the reason the County Hall project started in the first place &#8211; to give access to people who could not get up the stairs. That was before maintenance of the fabric became a major concern.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the lift designs failed to impress English Heritage (or Private Eye for that matter) and a less ambitious lift to the undercroft and basement was put in instead. One of the panes of glass is already cracked.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12053111.jpg\" alt=\"Lift and Lights\" \/><br \/>\nThe lighting on the other hand looks magnificent, as is all the paving,\u00a0roofing and\u00a0flooring.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12053114.jpg\" alt=\"Lift and Lights\" \/><br \/>\nAlong the walkways round the building are a number of pavement level up-lights.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12053113.jpg\" alt=\"Lift and Lights\" \/><br \/>\nThe lighting engineers should get an award.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12053107.jpg\" alt=\"Lift and Lights\" \/><br \/>\nAs should all the local craftsmen involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before getting to the magnificent lighting of the Old County Hall I should perhaps mention the lift. This was the reason the County Hall project started in the first place &#8211; to give access to people who could not get up the stairs. That was before maintenance of the fabric became a major concern. Unfortunately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-county-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}