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>>We do have one large Art Deco appartment building on the Brighton seafront, Embassy Court. For years it was left almost derelict and recently they did it up. Trouble is they didn't replace the curved windows on the corners:
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>>http://www.visitbrighton.com/news/343.asp
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>>There was a Brighton council leader in the 30s who was going to pull down all the "old fashioned" beautiful Regency architecture on Brighton seafront and replace it with Art dec. Luckily Adolf Hitler intervened on our behalf :-)
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>>Note this other view of it, with Regency buildings to the side. Watch the slide-show too:
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>>http://www-us.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/41538344/in/set-911212/
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>>Oh, and another view, with intersting slide show of photos of Brighton:
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>>http://www.urban75.org/photos/brighton/br65.html
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>>Here's how it was before resto.:
>>http://www.74simon.co.uk/embassycourt.html

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>I like that type of architecture. Second only IMO to Art Nouveau (Prague and Paris mainly). I used to like shooting architecture before I did birds. Now that the birding season is over and I'm getting more into the hobby I'm doing more architecture shots.
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>Brighton looks very nice. I have to visit someday.

Brighton is beautiful, and the countryside around it, 10 mins' drive away, is of outstanding natural beauty.

I've always said that where I live mightn't be the best place in Britain to live, but I know not of anywhere where I'd rather live.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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