It is what it is

摘要

When Thomas Telford, engineer, architect and planner of genius, laid out the grid-pattern Pulteneytown in 1808 overlooking the harbour he had also designed at Wick in Caithness, the dominant industry was herring fishing. Later it was slate and other stone, still produced today. Naturally there is whisky, the Pulteney distillery being the northernmost on the mainland. But the largest employer in the area is the nuclear power industry in the shape of the historically accident-prone nearby Dounreay nuclear power and research station. Employment is gradually tailing off as it is very slowly dismantled but there is a legacy apart from the slightly radioactive beach there. This is the Nucleus archive centre, designed by Reiach and Hall.