List of landmarks and notable buildings of Brighton and Hove
The city of Brighton and Hove (made up of the towns of Brighton and Hove) on the south coast of England, UK has a number notable buildings and landmarks.
Extant
Buildings and structures
- Bedford Hotel (Brighton), the present building being a replacement for one of Brighton's oldest and grandest hotels
- The Brighton Centre, a concert venue and conference centre known for hosting conferences for many of the major political parties of the UK
- Brighton Marina
- Brighton Pier (also known as Palace Pier, and as Brighton Marine Palace and Pier)
- Brighton railway station
- The British Engineerium (see external site)
- The Brunswick estate, Hove (a Regency housing development)
- Churchill Square, the largest shopping centre in Brighton
- The County Ground, home of Sussex County Cricket Club
- Duke of York's Picture House, the oldest continuously operating cinema in Britain
- Embassy Court[1], a starkly modernist 1930s design adjacent to Regency Brunswick Terrace; was a prototype for a proposed redevelopment of the entire seafront. Was refurbished in the mid-2000s.
- The Grand Hotel
- The Hanbury Arms incorporates as its ballroom a former mausoleum in an Indian architectural style, built for Edward Sassoon
- Hove railway station
- Kemp Town (a Regency housing development)
- The Lanes, an area of Brighton known for its small, twisting series of pedestrianised streets housing a large number of independent shops
- The Metropole Hotel
- The New England Quarter
- North Laine, sometimes incorrectly referred to as "North Laines", North Laine is a group of streets known for a large number of independent and bohemian shops
- The Pylons — a pair of three-sided stone pillars either side of the southbound A23 road marking the boundary point of Brighton, and carrying a message of welcome for new visitors, a welcome-back for returning visitors, and a welcome home for locals. They originally straddled the entire A23 before it was upgraded and widened in the early 1990s; one was moved to allow for the change in the carriageways.
- The Regency Town House
- The Royal Pavilion
- Sassoon Mausoleum
- Stanmer House
- The University of Sussex, a radical 1960s campus design by Sir Basil Spence, some of which is listed
- The West Pier
- The Western Pavilion, self-made home of prolific local architect Amon Henry Wilds, son of Amon Wilds and sometime working partner of Charles Busby
- White Lodge, The Cliff, Roedean; an atypically small house by Sir Edwin Lutyens, built for Victoria Sackville
- Withdean Stadium,
- The Lanes
Churches and places of worship
This is a small list of the most notable. See also List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove.
Galleries
Murals
Parks and other open air attractions
Extinct
Proposed and/or planned
- The i360 (a.k.a. The Brighton Eye)
See also
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