Protected panorama

摘要

Might the answer to building on a cliff be to build another cliff? Along the jagged edges of north Devon, a few miles from the beaches and surf of Woolacombe and Croyde, stands a house with a vertiginous white wall. It draws on the styles of Mediterranean modernism and the case study houses of America's west coast. Its architect, Guy Greenfield, has been building in the affluent tourist honeypots of Devon and Cornwall for several years, designing, and often developing, luxurious coastal apartments. His best known project was in quite a different environment alongside the gritty Hammersmith flyover in west London. That doctor's surgery, with its white carapace of protective shells, was Stirling shortlisted in 2001.