Here is a piece about new designs for beach huts in Lincolnshire.
It is a striking example.
Could this be the answer in Brighton and Hove? Our beach huts have been sneered at by such people as Paul Theroux as mere sheds. Could the Council, then, not encourage more imaginative huts along the front?
This would be far more feasible, far more pleasing than the King Alfred proposal. A really good beach hut would be a stimulating challenge for Frank Gehry, and the site and materials could just about be within reach of the Karis budget.
LTNS does not make it clear whether he would approve of such designs for the Beach Huts if there were not the obstacles of the Council and the "old folk".
In any case, is he not being a bit presumptuous about "old folk"? This may once have been the case about the Huts' occupants but a Hut has now become a trendy thing to own/lease.
Each time that a Hut changes hands the Council could ensure that a new design is submitted.
If Lincolnshire - previously a byword for dreary - can now make a go of things, Brighton and Hove has to show a spot of real imagination!
LTNS does not make it clear whether he would approve of such designs for the Beach Huts if there were not the obstacles of the Council and the "old folk".
Of Course that is because down here our winds are harder.
Oh yes along side Frank Gehrys crippled polio building designed by an architect with Parkinson’s disease with only the odd colours left from the Lego box these wouldn’t be out of place along Hove’s seafront. One good thing if this picture where taken in Hove is that by the looks of it someone’s nuked France.
Beach Huts - A Suitable Case for Treatment?
Posted - 09/09/2007 : 18:01:50
