Professor Mull Of Brighton University's School of Architecture & Design said..........

........... that part of the reason for holding the School's End of Yer show on Hastings Pier was the Pier's own extraordinary design, which saw it win the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2017.

“It’s sort of a recognition - between us, our students and the pier - of how the pier operates."

"We all admire it and we admire its ambitions and ethos."
  
"It’s beautifully designed, carefully made, it has a clear social purpose and these are things we value and try to do within the work of the school ."

"We were delighted to take up the challenge of occupying it and, I imagine, occupying it in a way its architects really wanted it to be occupied."

“We’ve also had incredible support from what we affectionately call the ‘Pier People’, who is everyone who is running the pier. They’ve helped us with everything right from how you fix things to the pier structure and they’ve been amazing.”

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