insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 07 - September 2015 | Page 11

NEWS

BRIGHTON AND HOVE CITY READS
CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF SHARED READING
Celebrating ten years of shared reading, City
Reads (Brighton and Hove) is the longest
running big read in the UK. The chosen
book for 2015 is Matt Haig’s The Humans,
an accessible, funny and inventive book that
asks what it means to be human. People have
already started the book and the celebration of
reading culminates in events around Brighton
and Hove from 10th October – 1st November.
City Reads is an annual citywide reading
festival which aims to spread a love of books
and ideas to the widest possible audience
throughout Brighton & Hove run by Collected
Works CIC. The concept is simple: selecting
one book by one author for the whole
community to read, discuss, debate and
creatively engage with in a series of special
events, workshops and performances.

Sarah Hutchings, artistic director explains
how proud she is that City Reads has such
a special book to celebrate its 10th birthday:
“This book changes lives. Just go on Twitter
and search ‘Matt Haig The Humans’ to see
what I mean. As soon as I read the book, I
knew we’d found our 2015 title. It made me
laugh, it made me cry, it was a book I wanted
to share with family, friends and acquaintances,
so choosing it for Brighton & Hove’s annual big
read seemed like the perfect way to do that.”
The full programme of events will be revealed
in September – but already announced is
the big closing event featuring Matt Haig in
conversation with Alex Clark (1st Nov,
The Old Market).
www.cityreads.co.uk

BRIGHTON i360 TOWER NOW TALLEST BUILDING IN SUSSEX
The Brighton i360 tower is now officially the tallest building in Sussex,
having reached 120 metres high, despite the fact the construction is not
yet complete.

and we expect to complete the 162 metre high tower by the middle of
September, if not sooner if the weather is good.”
David Marks, architect of the i360, explained: “Building the i360 is a
formidable engineering operation. The jacking tower is a vertical factory,
a vertical production line. Individual steel cans go in at the bottom, and
the finished tower comes out of the top, with the steel cans safely bolted
together and clad in an aluminium veil.”

The i360’s chief executive Eleanor Harris announced the milestone in
August. She said: “The i360 is now the tallest structure in Sussex: taller
than Shoreham Power Station, which previously was the tallest structure,
and Sussex Heights in Brighton & Hove, which was the tallest building,
and other famous landmarks such as Chichester Cathedral and the
Gatwick Air Traffic Control tower.

Segments of the glass pod, which has been designed and built by
leading cable car designers POMA, will arrive in Brighton in the autumn
and then work will begin on the beach buildings, to create a stunning new
events and visitor centre and restaurant.

"Up close the tower is an incredibly elegant and beautiful piece of
architecture, soaring up into the sky and it will be fantastic to see the
tower revealed in all its glory when the square jacking tower, used to build
the tower, is removed next month.

National and international interest in the Brighton i360 is building, with film
crews and magazines visiting to find out more from all over the world. The
attraction remains on track to open next summer.

“We are on schedule and have less than 50 metres of tower to build,

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