\n Alex Skarshelg wants to create the structure on Beacon Hill, near East Runton.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Sapiens Garden plan, which is in its very early stages, would see the lighthouse surrounded by a “garden of memory”, a circular landscaped garden made up of 77 trees, each dedicated to a significant cultural figure, from scientists to musicians and philosophers.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Skarshelg, who is Russian, said the idea grew from 15 years of building timber homes by hand and from friendships in the UK.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cGreat Britain is a country of beacons,” he added.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo why not create a new one, something that speaks both to history and to the future?\n<\/p>\n
\n The 42-metre tower of oak and larch lighthouse planned for East Runton (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis is one of the highest points in the east of England, and historically it helped to guide and signal ships,” Mr Skarshelg, 43, said.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We are giving the hill back its old memory and its symbol. That feels to me both important and timely.”\n<\/p>\n
\n While still at an early stage, the proposal would see locally sourced materials used wherever possible, with English oak at the heart of the design.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy soul is in love with wood,\u201d he said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe idea is that this lighthouse would be built from timber grown and worked here in England.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We are already in early conversations with interested colleagues, and it promises to be fascinating.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Concept of weather beacon planned for Greenwich park (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n
\n Before any Norfolk construction, a smaller prototype weather beacon is planned for Greenwich Park in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Skarshelg wants to create the structure on Beacon Hill, near East Runton. The Sapiens Garden plan, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-554288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}