UK studio Lipton Plant Architects is set to convert a windowless world war two bunker in Dorset, England, into a holiday home.
The studio has won planning permission to create a two-bedroom holiday rental property within the bunker, which was originally built in 1939 but has long been abandoned.
"We are taking a windowless concrete world war two bunker that sits within an earth mound and has not been uncovered for over 70 years, and opening up several 'bomb blast' openings with glazing behind," said Lipton Plant Architects co-founder Edward Lipton.
"We are preparing spaces to receive views, light, inhabitants for the first time," he told Dezeen.
Top: the bunker will have bomb-blast windows. Above: it will have two bedrooms Created as part of the Chain Home radar detection system ? a ring of radar stations built by the Royal Air Force during world war two ? the 76-square-metre bunker is located near Weymouth on the south coast of the UK.
The bunker's interior will be converted into two bedrooms alongside a kitchen, living space and bathroom.
As the bunker has no windows, the studio is creating two bomb-blast-shaped windows to allow light into the holiday home. One will be in the living space and the other in one of the bedrooms.

"A play on the building's history, the windows create an illusion, a modern, domestic, high-tech and sustainable home, reflecting and receiving not radar from the darkness, but light," explained Lipton.
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