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Falmer House and the Making of a Modern Campus
Explore Basil Spence’s design, materials and landscape setting as the architectural centre of the new university.
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CITY COLLECTION
Architecture & Conservation
How streets, public buildings and changing ideas about conservation shape the city.
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Two Town Halls, Two Civic Traditions
Compare Brighton and Hove’s municipal buildings as expressions of distinct government, taste and local identity.
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Why Regency Brighton Is Covered in Stucco
Explain the material, visual ambitions, maintenance problems and conservation significance of the city’s pale façades.
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Bow Windows, Balconies and the Architecture of Looking Out
Explore how seaward views, light and social display shaped Brighton and Hove’s domestic fronts.
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Bungaroosh: The Unlikely Fabric of Brighton
Describe the mixed walling material, why it was widely used and the challenges it creates for repair.
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Flint Walls From Downland Field to City Street
Trace local flint from agricultural boundary material to a defining feature of churches, cottages and public buildings.
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Railings, Balconies and Brighton’s Cast-Iron Landscape
Use surviving ironwork to examine craftsmanship, standardisation, wartime loss and modern restoration.
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Twittens, Passages and the City’s Smallest Routes
Investigate how narrow pedestrian ways preserve older boundaries and patterns of movement.
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How Brighton and Hove’s Conservation Areas Were Chosen
Explain designation, character statements and the changing ideas of heritage behind the protected areas.
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Madeira Terrace and the Engineering of the Seafront
Examine the cast-iron structure as municipal infrastructure, designed landscape and major conservation challenge.
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Embassy Court and Modernism on the Seafront
Place Wells Coates’s apartment block within debates about modern living, coastal architecture and restoration.
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Saltdean Lido and the Architecture of Motion
Read the listed Moderne complex through its ocean-liner forms, reinforced-concrete construction and survival.
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