summary of R.Holden's article

To summarize the article 'Favourite Landscape' by Robert Holden in the Architects Journal, 02 June 2005:

• 1993 - the National Trust took over the site and started: restoring the shingle habitat (very fragile type of habitat), conserving the nature and preserving the military structures.
• The Pagodas - 2 massive concrete structures, ex-atomic testing lab, stand out in the landscape like a "Neolitic site, memorials to Cold War military science"
• "Shingle was used as aggregate in some foundation structures so the landform became the buildings". The history, geology is built in those structures, surrounding them and now the nature starts testing them; it may reclaim the shingle after some time.
• "Orford Ness is a place of transition and memory".