Art of the out-of-towner

By Amanda Birch and Amanda Birch Amanda Birch2007-02-09T00:00:00

The main entrance to Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery uses fair-faced concrete, chosen in preference to structural steel because of its anticorrosive properties.

Material dredged from the Solent has already made it onto the concrete walls of Rick Mather’s Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne. The challenge was to maintain the consistency.

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