{"id":477135,"date":"2026-03-15T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477135\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:28:10","slug":"camber-sands-new-welcome-centre-is-a-seaside-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477135\/","title":{"rendered":"Camber Sands\u2019 new welcome centre is a seaside delight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">It presents a colonnade of \ufeff13 concrete pillars to its neighbouring car park, which would be almost solemn if they weren\u2019t dyed with blue-green-cream swirls \ufeffinspired, say the architects\ufeff, by the garish \ufeffcolours \ufeffof seaside ice-creams. They could also represent, if you like, those of the sea, the countryside and the sand. Above is a long, high entablature in sweet chestnut boarding \u2013 a material chosen for its durability as well as its\ufeff appearance \u2013 level as the horizon. At one end a roof starts folding upwards, then another one out of that, to form a sort of tower. Two circles, a window and a rooflight\ufeff puncture the surfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It presents a colonnade of \ufeff13 concrete pillars to its neighbouring car park, which would be almost solemn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6510,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architecture","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}