New HQ is a long-term project for yacht club
Friday 11th April 2008, 2:29PM BST.
The RCIYC’s new clubhouse design.
THE Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club is in no hurry to find a new home.
But it will soon seek planning consent for the winning design for a clubhouse on the Crown Pier.
Commodore John Frankland said that the club, which had only recently moved in above Da Bruno Restaurant, viewed it as a long-term project. ‘We are happy where we are. We are settled,’ he said.
‘This is not a case of the club desperately needing a new home. We can stay where we are for as long as we want. This is for future generations and is something we are looking to work on for the next five to 10 years.’ The club would be submitting the design to Environment soon, but he could not say exactly when.
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As I have only been able to see the small photos of the proposed designs for the RCIYC it is too difficult for me to judge them. However, it seems to me that a building that reflects both 2010 as well as a nautical theme would be an asset to the harbour-scene. Insignificance is not what is wanted, surely? Check out the loo with a view in Mooloolaba, Queensland on http://www.mooloolabarealestate.com.au/about_mooloolaba/virtual_tour and you will see the use of appropriate materials (teak, stainless steel etc) combined with a lightness of touch and some humour (steamship air vents, cleat seating, portholes etc) and all this attention to detail for a public toilet, but one on a wonderful beach. Oh that some of our beach facilities could be so interesting! St Peter Port harbour surely deserves a positive, vibrant statement rather than the modest, utilitarian and characterless blocks we see around the harbour now, most supposedly ‘congruous’ because of a bit of granite stuck on them to make it seem as if they ‘fit’. It is time to move away from the packing shed mentality and embrace life!
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