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Mondial House was once Europe’s largest structure devoted to telecommunications – and it’s not difficult to see the analogue the architects\u00a0Hubbard, Ford & Partners were trying to make between this function and the overall look and feel of the building. Famously referred to as ‘dreadful’ by Prince Charles, Mondial adopted a staggered pyramidal ‘ziggurat’ form, with nods to desktop word processors and early computers, coupling this with an advanced approach to buildings materials in the form of a facade of concrete clad in a glass reinforced plastic for longevity. Below the surface was the heart of Mondial: a bomb-proof, innovative telephone exchange that nonetheless grew obsolete and failed to secure a heritage listing for the now-demolished structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mondial House was once Europe’s largest structure devoted to telecommunications – and it’s not difficult to see the analogue the architects\u00a0Hubbard, Ford & Partners were trying to make between this function and the overall look and feel of the building. Famously referred to as ‘dreadful’ by Prince Charles, Mondial adopted a staggered pyramidal ‘ziggurat’ form, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}