– the eagle house, another from the architectural oddities file, possible Folly…
This intriguing construction, cement with stone veneer, from the ’40s, overlooks the beach at Atlantida on the central west coast. It is currently undergoing repair and rennovation – for years abandoned and subject to the encroaching beach erosion, blowing sand and so on. Now one can go right in, from the balcony on which people are standing, and up some steep stairs to come out on another little balcony with a view, contained in the bird’s beak. The rooms are tiny, and it’s by no means your comfy beachside residence. there is a back entrance to the fithg of this photo, past the bird’s shoulders. Apparrently before the cliffs began to be eroded the complex included a construction of a ship’s bow complete with some figurehead – that has crashed into the sea but the dunes/cliffs have now been stabilised and the house itself remains at the top of the cliff.

Summer’s here and once again we will be out and about with the camera. This one we captured last year, but I just did not get round to including it in a post.

Normally such a structure would be either a grain silo, or perhaps a chimney stack; it’s rather tall for a bell tower, and there’s no one living for miles around, anyway. If it were painted white, or here in Uruguay red and white, and out on the point of a rocky headland or a rocky near-coastal island, we’d presume it was a light house.

The absence of paint, a large light, smoke or a bell at the top rules out those suggestions. The metal framed sliding windows at intervals up the wall suggest a structure either designed (?) or adapted for living…. we just don’t know. But if we’re out that way this summer we might just see if we can find someone in the vicinity who doesn’t mind a couple of nosey strangers asking questions……

This is another from last summer’s Architectural Oddities section from last summer, too, but it is still there. Obviously it will be enjoyed by those whose luck it is to have this near-seaside home with balcony views as their holiday home …..