FUTURE PROJECTS – TEXT ONLY
Bathing Beauties® Art Meets Architecture on the UK Coast.
A future development of the Bathing Beauties® project includes two new permanent micro-architecture structures in Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire, UK and, it is hoped, the realisation of a Beachfront Restaurant / Boathouse for Chapel St. Leonards for which funding is being sought.
The Round and Round House: A Bird Hide Designed by Kingston and Weber of Soma Design, UK.
This original small building was spotted by a professional environmentalist in the international Bathing Beauties® competitions as ideal for bird-watching. The Lincolnshire coast, with its east-facing position out to the North Sea, attracts a unique influx of birds including sightings of The Pectoral Sandpiper and Audouins Gull. Located on high dunes off the beach at Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire, UK, the structure will overlook the sea to the east and is in an area designated to become a coastal wildlife park. The Round and Round House features two viewing levels for up to 10 people and will be constructed from curved laminated plywood. When installed in November 2008, it will be open for free for everyone to enjoy all year round. Accessibility will be limited due to the unique location in sand dunes off the beach and up a narrow wooden pathway. When installed in November 2008, you will be able to visit from Anderby Creek car park, up the pullover to the beach, turning right and going along the beach past a small row of houses for about 10minutes until reaching a small wooden pathway on the right where The Round and Round House will be situated at the top of the dunes. This website will be updated when The Round and Round House is installed and ready to visit.
The Cloud Bar Designed by Michael Trainor, UK.
The UKs first permanent cloud watching outpost will be a unique small building which makes use of a former existing single- storey shelter. The Cloud Bar will be clad with locally sourced larch and feature a cloud-spotting menu, specially designed cloud-viewing seating to recline on and a series of self-operated parabolic cloud-mirrors to magic the sky down to the earth. Visitors will be able to view the many cloud formations in the ‘big skies’ of Lincolnshire and identify the clouds using the menu of descriptions and examples permanently engraved in the structure.
Situated in an isolated spot at Anderby Creek, just one minute from the car park, there is a small cafe nearby. The Cloud Bar will be completed in late October 2008 and this website will be updated when it is completed and ready to visit. The Cloud Bar is officially endorsed by the Cloud Appreciation Society.
Beachfront Restaurant Arts Space and Boathouse for Chapel St. Leonards, Lincolnshire, UK.
In parallel with the Bathing Beauties®: Re-imagine the Beach Hut for the 21st Century international architecture competition, a second competition to design a Beachfront Restaurant/Boathouse for a site at Chapel St. Leonards was launched simultaneously in 2006. Over 70 entries were received and the winning design is by Robert Cody, New York, USA. Some funding is in place and further funding is being raised to realise this winning design which incorporates a boathouse and facilities for the Royal Life Saving Society at Chapel St. Leonards, Lincolnshire, UK and will be a centre for local arts including gallery space for exhibitions, internet access for the local communities and an inspirational space for artists stimulated by the coast.
‘Architectural Lines In the Sand’, design for a new Beachfront Restaurant, Arts Space and Boathouse. By Robert Cody of Amoia Cody Architects, New York, USA.
‘Architectural Lines in The Sand’ is the title of the design for a new building with will extend from the landscape to offer a fluid experience from the footpath to the beach at Chapel St. Leonards, Lincolnshire, UK. From the footpath, it is intended that you will see the boathouse volume, which ends the “middle” line in the sand. This middle line will house all the services of the project. The “beginning” line allows the Royal Life Saving Boat to have direct access to the beach. The “ending” line connects back to the main beach path. The boat house volume curves towards the beach, opening up the space and inviting you into the projects upper terrace toward the main space of the restaurant. The restaurant is designed to be either fully enclosed with infill wood panel or open-air with a canvassed structure depending on the season. Continuing up the ramp, visitors will emerge from within this landscape into a dune viewing / birdwatching plateau. Here, it is intended that visitors will be fully immersed in the landscape of the beach and big skies of Chapel St. Leonards, Lincolnshire, UK.
Some funding is in place and further funding is currently being sought to realise the winning Beachfront Restaurant, Arts Space and Boathouse design. For further information please contact Alistair Humphries, Tel: +44(0)1522 550602 Alistair.humphries@lincolnshire.gov.uk
The Future of Bathing Beauties®
For further information, please contact Lesa Dryburgh at press@bathingbeauties.org.uk