Value
Role
Architect
Client
RNLI
Project
New Build
Type
Lifeboat Station
Location
Conwy, Wales
£2.4M
Llandudno Lifeboat Station
Llandudno, Wales
Due to the prominent location, the design required a suitably striking silhouette that would be visible to all who arrived at Llandudno via the main transport route. Given the exposed location, the design and all materials had to be robust to ensure longevity against the often harsh weather, whilst helping to bed the building into its environment.
RNLI Llandudno lifeboat station on the North Shore was completed and handed over to the RNLI and their volunteer crew in 2017. Following a protracted effort to secure Planning Permission on this iconic site and tough negotiations with the Local Authority and the Design Commission for Wales, of which accurate photomontages were an essential part. Clad with local limestone, Siberian larch and copper, the bold design sits proudly on the storm beach to the east of Llandudno’s Victorian promenade and between the limestone headlands of the Great and Little Orme which shelter the bay. The scheme is based on one of the new ‘Catalogue’ lifeboat stations designed by Studio Four in partnership with the RNLI.
(Photomontages by Studio Four / Olive Creative)