Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts including kerbstones to pool is a Grade II* listed building in the Brighton and Hove local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Arts centre. 29 related planning applications.

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts including kerbstones to pool

WRENN ID
dusted-lancet-hawk
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Brighton and Hove
Constituency
Brighton Pavilion MP: Siân Berry (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
Arts centre
Address
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts including kerbstones to pool, University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, the City of Brighton and Hove, BN1 9RA
OS grid reference
TQ 345 089
Coordinates
50.86455, -0.0899
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, formerly known as the Gardner Arts Centre, is an arts centre located at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Designed by Sir Basil Spence and built between 1967 and 1969, the building features brick construction with some areas of bare concrete and flat roofs. Its design includes a series of complex multi-segmental circular forms, highlighted by a tall central cylinder with segmental projections, surrounded by lower circles and part-circles. The walls are mostly solid, but some circles have vertical slit windows, and there are horizontal bands of glazing connecting them. The centre also includes a café that overlooks a small segmentally shaped pool. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts including kerbstones to pool receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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