The Anderby Creek Cloud Bar
Designed by Michael Trainor, UK.
The UKs first permanent cloud watching outpost is a unique small building which makes use of a former existing single - storey shelter. The Anderby Creek Cloud Bar is clad with larch and features 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 may view the many cloud formations in the ‘big skies’ of Lincolnshire, UK and identify clouds using the menu of descriptions and examples permanently engraved around the top of the structure.
Situated in a quiet spot at Anderby Creek, Lincolnshire, UK, just one minute from the car park. The small cafe nearby are keyholders and are intending to open The Anderby Creek Cloud Bar daily from 9am to dusk. 
The Cloud Bar is officially endorsed by the Cloud Appreciation Society. www.cloudappreciationsociety.org
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 www.lincsbirds.co.uk 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 later in 2009, 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 later in 2009, 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.
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 (all exhibition entries may be viewed in Archive) 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®
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Images:
Top left: The Lincolnshire Coast, UK - Photo © Michael Trainor
Top right: The Round and Round House - By Soma Design, UK - Artists impression & photo © Michael Trainor |
