'It has stood up architecturally to all the insensitive alterations it has had to endure and shines out like a beauty in a bad dress.' First-year architecture student Sophie Hicks delights in the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, Sussex. Designed in 1933 by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff , the building is one of the finest examples of modern seaside architecture in Britain.