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West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Exterior wall with exposed herringbone brick pattern, alternating with exposed concrete bands and grey flint stones: Photographs

01/01/1996

Exterior View, Focus on Details

Four images of the finished north wall with details of brick pattern, arch, thistle ornament and window mullions.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center: Exterior wall with exposed herringbone brick pattern, alternating with exposed concrete bands and grey flint stones 1994

Building Detail, Wall Treatment

The exposed surface of the perimeter thick wall is made of a combination of red bricks, exposed concrete and flint stones. there are several patterns of alternating repetition, the predominant one being the alteration between concrete bands and the herringbone ...

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Scientific Research 2 Items

Projects 1 Items

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center 1994 to 1996

Near Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.

Civic, Realized , Construction completed in Nov. 1995

The West Dean Center is a simple one-story masonry building with a large red-tiled roof and intricate brickwork for its thick walls. The building is surrounded by gardens, and its south facing wall has large arched windows overlooking the garden ...

Photographs 1 Items

West Dean College Gardens Visitor's Center - Door and window shaping: Photograph of sketches with the window as a center 01/01/1996

Construction Innovation, Sketches, Focus on Details

Several geomeric properties –alternating repetition, good shape, strong centers, positive space– are present through the articulation of the brick pattern, arch, thistle ornament, muntins. There is an inherent harmonious structure bringing forward the window as a center. A sketch by ...