The public responded favorably to the West Dean Visitor Centre for its easy familiarity, while architectural specialists questioned its material juxtapositions

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• To anyone searching the horizon for an architectural future that does not repeat the paths of Classicism, Modernism or any other style-based solution, the Visitor Centre at West Dean represents a set of possible answers.claim0.867
  Author's concluding claim about the building's broader significance.
• The public has been much in favour of the building because the Visitor Centre has the sort of easy familiarity that non-architects understand more readily.claim0.827
  Observation contrasting public approval with specialist scepticism.
• West Dean Visitor's Centreconcept0.825
  The test-bed project where innovative brick, concrete, flint, and stonework were developed, informing the Mary Rose Museum.
• At West Dean Visitor's Centre, the introduction of four massive transverse cross-walls pierced by arches transformed the building from an incomplete carcass into a coherent structure with syncopated unequal spacing and distinct levels of scale.finding0.799
  Empirical design result: the cross-wall intervention was the specific transformation that completed the West Dean building
• The long curved bench at West Dean Visitor's Centre holds and defines the drop of space between gate and building, making the space come alive.claim0.788
• The arched cross-wall structure at West Dean — not foreseen at the time of initial drawings — is what most firmly holds the building together and gave it definite unity as a thing.claim0.770
  Alexander's account of emergence in architectural design: a major structural element was discovered on site, not pre-designed.
• Long curved bench at West Dean Visitor's Centreconcept0.758
  A flint and brick bench that holds an egg-shaped space, making the entrance come alive.
• The West Dean building was worth about one and a half times what the client paid compared to conventional practice, due to program budgeting.claim0.755
  Empirical claim about the efficiency and value gain of the integrated cost process.