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MARINE COURT - ST. LEONARDS

Marine Court is to this day one of my favourite buildings along the south coast. It was designed by architects Kenneth Dalgleish and Roger Pullen and is an early example of steel-frame and concrete construction. For their inspiration the architects turned to the then recently commissioned Cunard White-Star Line’s Queen Mary. The east end of Marine Court is shaped to imitate the curved, stacked bridge front of the Queen Mary; the eastern restaurant served to imitate the fo’c’sle (*1) deck of the ship.

It is widely reported that it’s build cost, of close to £500,000, was way over budget and some other interesting statistics include –

Construction materials

2,000 tons of cement

2,500 tons of sand

1,400,000 building bricks

22,000 square feet of glass

14,000 tons of ballast

2,100 tons of steel

3,000 gallons of paint

The building contains

6 acres of partitions

7 miles of skirting

5½ acres of floors

14 acres of ceilings and wall plastering

2,000 doors

Five hundred men were directly employed on the site throughout construction while hundreds more would have been found work in the local factories and other businesses supplying the vast amount of materials needed.

When viewed from the east or west Marine Court is tall and slender, from the beach the full expanse of the building dwarfs all those on the seafront and when you look at the numbers the fact it dwarfs other buildings on the seafront is perhaps no surprise. It is 14 storeys high and from basement to roof, measures 170ft or 49m in height and from east to west is 416ft or 127 metres in length.

For more info check out this article:

https://www.hastingsinfocus.co.uk/2018/05/10/from-land-and-sea-the-iconic-structure-that-defines-the-st-leonards-seafront/

#marinecourt

#stleonardsonsea

#stleonards #hastings #artdeco

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VW Autosleeper.

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As the lockdown continues, I have been getting creative doing some commission work for my friend in Belgium...

Here's the result 😊

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A work in progress... Madeira Drive, Brighton.

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Progress has been made...

I've finished the first piece in a Brighton inspired series of works.

Rotring .05/.03 & Photoshop edit.

Exhibition from 2nd May at Le Village, Brighton.

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#royalpavilionbrighton #rotring #localartist #architecture #brightonartists #photoshop #exhibition #brighton #brightoning #birchart #anthonybirchart #locallandmarks #brightonarchitecture #brightonlandmarks

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Coming soon to Brighton...

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My most recent project focussed on the community of Catford, South London. My aim was to unite a community by creating a communal garden space and an activities centre.

#catford #milfordtowers #communitybuilding #universityofbrighton

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Exhibition now on at the 33rd Cafe bar, Norman rd, St leonards on sea.

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I've been working on a new commission. Can anyone guess what I'm drawing?

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Working in a series of montages for my solo exhibition in August, I need something to keep me busy over the long summer! 😂 this is my second piece inspired by the matter if Hastings Pier and it's future. (if you don't already know, you can google it) #hastingspier #communitypier #realhastingsmaters (at Hastings, East Sussex)

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Working in a series of montages for my solo exhibition in August, I need something to keep me busy over the long summer! 😂 this is my second piece inspired by the matter if Hastings Pier and it's future. (if you don't already know, you can google it) #hastingspier #communitypier #realhastingsmaters (at Hastings, East Sussex)

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Working in a series of montages for my solo exhibition in August, I need something to keep me busy over the long summer! 😂 this is my second piece inspired by the matter if Hastings Pier and it's future. (if you don't already know, you can google it) #hastingspier #communitypier #realhastingsmaters (at Hastings, East Sussex)

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#oval tube station which I had the pleasure of traveling through was designed by Architect #charlesholden. Holden designed many of London's underground stations. This one opened in 1890 on the Northern Line to serve the Oval Cricket Ground. #ovalcricketground #northernline (at Oval, London)

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#oval tube station which I had the pleasure of traveling through was designed by Architect #charlesholden. Holden designed many of London's underground stations. This one opened in 1890 on the Northern Line to serve the Oval Cricket Ground. #ovalcricketground #northernline (at Oval, London)

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My recent design project is to configure and design a workshop space for a micro industry. I chose willow weaving and basketry. Here's what I've come up with so far.

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Experimenting with reverse paper folding for a technologies project.