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De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
Name:
Andrew McDuffie
Building:
De La Warr Pavilion
Location:
Bexhill-on-Sea
What is your relationship to this building?:
I grew up in Bexhill, saw this place almost every day as I walked to and from the bus-stop or the town centre. I took it completely for granted, seeing it as little more than a gathering place for the swarms of woolly-hatted, tea guzzling old dears who - as prolific as pigeons - lurk there still.
Why do you love this building?:
Nostalgia, though not my own. The building seems to have an air of faded dreams about it - as if it were a blueprint for an egalitarian future that never quite arrived - this is a quality common to a lot of Art Deco. There's little need for me to talk about the magnificent qualities of the building itself - they are obvious.

View an interactive 360 panorama of the De la Warr Pavilion: http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/interactive/
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View the interior of the pavillion at: http://www.74simon.co.uk/delawarr.html
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