A very big thank you to representatives from Southend-On-Sea Council, Essex University, and the South Essex College, who took time out of their busy schedules to help me organise a tour for the ADP London Studio around the Forum, the multi award winning new community building that ADP, myself in my then role as Associate Architect, designed with them two years ago. A fantastic bonus to the tour was seeing the new cultural centre at the end of the mile long pier, a fascinating structure built off site at Tilbury Docks and lifted onto the pier by a marine crane brought over from Holland. The pale green resin cladding panels are so delicate in their colouration and vary with the changing light and colour of the sea.
