Four shelters and kiosk by Bexhill-on-Sea's De La Warr Pavilion will form part of £5m regeneration programme

The RIBA has announced the launch of a design competition for four seafront shelters and a kiosk for Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex. 

Organised by the RIBA Competitions Office on behalf of Rother District Council’s Next Wave Project, the project’s construction value of £220,000 is part of a wider £5 million cultural regeneration programme. CABE has donated £1 million of funding under its SeaChange Programme.

Consisting of a series of urban development strategies, the projects are focused on a core area of Bexhill’s seafront, where the famous modernist De La Warr Pavilion is located.

Architects are encouraged to develop designs for high quality structures that will help lift the area’s place-making and regenerative objectives of the Next Wave Project, enhancing the experience of visiting Bexhill’s seafront.

Niall McLaughlin, architect and a member of the jury panel, said: “The Bexhill competition offers practices the opportunity to make innovative architecture in a special seafront setting. The relationship to the sea and the long promenade is very interesting.  The proximity of the De La Warr Pavilion gives the project a special importance.  Our bandstand was an RIBA Competition winner ten years ago and, although tiny, it allowed us to think experimentally about architecture in a way not always afforded by bigger projects”.

The deadline for stage one design submissions is Wednesday 12 August 2009. 

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