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Cornwall which remain successful seaside resorts
because they blend holidaymaking and
tourism and tourist architecture with other
And there are sometimes tendencies to tidy up
rists.
That is a mistake. Tourists enjoy looking
people are doing.
There’s also a role for public art. The British
artist called Damian Hurst has created this
the harbour arm in Devon seaside resort of
Ilfracombe. Public art can be very powerful in
bringing, in helping to characterize a resort.
But the public art can sometimes be very small
scale as well. Another British artist, Tracy
Emin, and a tiny little bronze cast of a child’s
shoe in Folkston in the south-east of England.
There are also stories of success in the sense
of buildings being restored. This image shows
the restored and iconic 1930s Jubilee Pool in
Brighton, Embassy Court, has been restored
and saved from dereliction. The same is true
of the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill which
has been restored and reopened as a multipurpose
arts centre but primarily as a gallery
for visual arts.
There are also new buildings. One of the
challenges is to get the balance right between
constructing new buildings and reusing old
buildings. Two English examples of new architecture
for the arts and cultural industries
are the Turner Contemporary in Margate, and
the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings. In both cases
there was intense local argument about
the proposals and some vocal opposition. For
instance, there was opposition about the Jerwood
as some local people believed the gallery
was a metropolitan imposition, removing
what they saw as their own space and land. So
another related challenge is to develop me-
proposals for new building and local people;
ideally local people need to be actively involved
from an early stage.
what’s happening in present day Brighton by
showing a series of photographs taken just a
week or two ago. Some aspects of presentday
seaside Brighton work very well. The
seafront is well used by cyclists, people promenading,
people walking, people running. A
new children’s paddling pool is working well.
A derelict Victorian bandstand has been restored
by the council and is now one of the
most popular features on the seafront, a free
feature with a band playing on it and a café
underneath. The bandstand is an important
part of the seafront: Victorian Oriental architecture
reused for modern purposes. And
the same is true of a 1950s bathing station,
where people changed before going onto the
beach or into the sea, which has been turned
into a popular restaurant. The combination of
people and new and renewed architecture and,
of course, lovely weather, makes for a buzzy,
successful seafront where people look and are
looked at. Even Brighton’s Regency terraces
can be remembered and made into tourist
attractions by what in Britain are called blue
plaques acknowledging famous people who
have lived there. And just this last weekend we
ended the 47th season of the Brighton Festival
which is a week-long arts festival. So festivals
can be helpful as well in attracting people to
the seaside and its architecture.
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