Publication Account
Date 1997
Event ID 1019369
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019369
Twenty houses on four neadby sites in the harbour area. An influential scheme designed to evoke a traditonal fishing-port atmosphere. Typical of the many smaller projects of the immediate postwar years in its ambiguous combination of features indicating 'vernacular' character (the pantile roofs), features indicating Modern character (the metal-framed windows), and elements pointing both ways, such as the concrete forestairs and balconies, or the rubble base walling, with its allusions both to small-burgh heritage and to the avant-garde 1930s 'organic' tendency of architects such as Corbusier. Storage space for tackle and fishing-nets was integrated into the design. (Fig. 4.15).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Post-War Vision, 1945-75', (1997).