Shaped Box Beach House

East Beach Café by Thomas Heatherwick in unusual café design. Shaped like a vast piece of driftwood, washed-up on the shore, the rusted metal shell undulates in sections, like rings of wood that have been smoothed by the sea. The shell of the building is both its skin and the structure. It comprises a steel outer layer which is cut into a series of vertical slices.The scale and material of the structure combined with its unique shape and setting, makes for an extraordinary contrast of organic and industrial, natural and manmade. The complex contours of the rear of the building have a powerful sculptural quality, the intensity of detail and shadow changing with every nuance of light and sun.Want another...