{"id":40875,"date":"2009-11-12T12:12:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T17:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/?p=21307"},"modified":"2009-11-12T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T17:12:52","slug":"key-figures-in-building-industry-visit-number-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40875","title":{"rendered":"Key figures in building industry visit Number 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/buildingrecep3-474.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21323\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; float: right;\" title=\"The PM meets students from Eastbourne College; Crown copyright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/buildingrecep3-474-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"The PM meets students from Eastbourne College; Crown copyright\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>The Prime Minister has welcomed leading architects, key members of the construction industry and other figures involved in creating Britain&#8217;s public spaces to Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Brown told guests, who included the winners of this year&#8217;s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) Public Building Award, that British design and architecture are &#8220;second to none&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the reception, the Prime Minister said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Everywhere I go round the world I see British architecture and I see the fruits of the great talent and ability we have in Britain, and everywhere I go round Britain these days I see the tremendous creativity of British architects and what you\u2019re achieving in new schools, new hospitals, but also in new public as well as private buildings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also met student from Eastbourne College, who won the Royal Institute for British Architect&#8217;s (RIBA) 175th Anniversary competition to design a Parliament building of the future.<\/p>\n<p>The PM said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It is a really exciting design and it shows huge creativity amongst young people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architecture.com\/\">RIBA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabe.org.uk\/\">CABE<\/a>&#8217;s websites<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister has welcomed leading architects, key members of the construction industry and other figures involved in creating Britain&#8217;s public spaces to Downing Street. Gordon Brown told guests, who included the winners of this year&#8217;s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) Public Building Award, that British design and architecture are &#8220;second to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}