4House In The Clouds, England
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In 1923, this structure was built in order to receive water pumped from the Thorpeness Windmill. It now serves as a home with 3 bathrooms and 5 bedrooms. Although it was disguised as a house at first, it was used as a water tower. However as years passed, it ended up being a house. From a distance the vision of the house is somewhat disconcerting: a “cottage” that seems to float above the trees that surround it. Although when one approaches one discovers everything, one discovers that it is nothing more than an ingenious trick to disguise a wooden house water tower and thus not ruin the landscape of Thorpeness, a vacation village with a touch of a fairy tale , in which the house is not the only thing that is not what it seems. Thorpeness is a truly amazing site, although quite unknown even in Britain. Its promoter was Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, a Scottish lawyer and playwright who belonged to a wealthy family. His father Alexander was one of the pioneers of the railway in 1858 and had made a good fortune from it. At the beginning of the 20th century, Glencairn inherited the Sizewell estate from his family along with what was then only a small fishing village, Thorpe. Ogilvie quickly chose the location to create a vacation village for upper-class people. His ambition was to create a fun, safe and healthy place, almost an English paradise, on the Suffolk coast. Ogilvie was a close friend of the writer J.M. Barrie, creator of the Peter Pan character, and borrowed some of the characters and settings from his books to create some of the most fantastic places in his town. Ogilvie wanted to build a perfect traditional town that would serve as a refuge from the horrors of life in “modern” industrial cities. The town was built following the utopian and bucolic image of pastoral England at some point in history, after the Middle Ages and before the Industrial Revolution, which perhaps never existed. That conception of England was known as “Merry England”, a mixture of nostalgia, feelings and politics. Frederick Forbes-Glennie and William Gilmour Wilson were the architects chosen to build this paradise of English romanticism. Click the next ARROW to see the next image!
