“Half the towns in Europe now dream of building a modern masterpiece like the Bilbao Guggenheim. Amazingly, sedate Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, achieved one 65 years ago. The De La Warr Pavilion is a masterpiece twice over. First because of its supremely elegant design by Europe’s leading Expressionist architect, Erich Mendelsohn, and secondly because it still functions almost exactly as intended – as a highly flexible community and arts centre, thronged with people all day, with a theatre playing to packed audiences almost every evening.” – The Sunday Times (UK)