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Article: Life's a beach: Thomas Heatherwick kicks off the English summer with a trip to the seaside.(Viewpoint essay)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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The English seaside has always been characterised by a through-gritted-teeth kind of jollity. But now that you can fly to Riga for [pounds sterling]9.99, the attractions of pebbly beaches, rotting piers and kiss-me-quick are rapidly fading folk memories for most mass trippers. This summer, however, the seaside strikes back, led by the patron saint of English architectural eccentricity Thomas Heatherwick, energetically abetted by his client Jane Wood.
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On the promenade at Littlehampton, a sleepy West Sussex seaside town, Wood and Heatherwick have created a startling new ...