Architecture studio Morrow + Lorraine has been given the go ahead to build a set of clifftop holiday homes on the Isle of Portland, England (+ slideshow).

The five holiday lodges, collectively known as the Clifftops Cove Holiday Park, are designed by London-based Morrow + Lorraine for a former caravan park on the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO-protected site on the Dorset island.
This stretch of land is made up of layers of sedimentary rock containing fossils and stones from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods ? when dinosaurs walked the earth.

The development will be sandwiched between two heritage-listed castles, and will be constructed from a combination of pre-patinated copper and Portland stone, which is quarried nearby. Set into a natural step in the terrain and covered in grass, the residences will be hidden from view from the Gothic-Revival Pennsylvania Castle above and a coastal path that passes along the cliff edge in front.

"It is a wild, post-industrial landscape in which the heritage issues are bound up with the natural," said the firm. "On the one hand, the site is associated with the Jurassic Coast and quarrying, but on the other with a tamed and managed polite landscape associated with Pennsylvania Castle."

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