Helensborough Advertiser

Talented architecture students used their powers of perception to transform one of Helensburgh’s main features — and show how it could be dynamically redeveloped for the future. The brief was comparatively simple — for students to ‘pier’ into the future and come up with schemes which would transform the town’s controversial seafront site into a water’s edge attraction for visitors and locals. And their efforts did not disappoint nor go unrewarded for some when a variety of ideas were forthcoming, including turning the structure into a Neopolitan timber-clad pier, a ‘Garden of Eden,’ a Royal Festival Hall, a water’s-edge house of fun and a thought-provoking apocalyptic vision of global warming.