CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/1/2018

Will Scott photographed British sea shelters—among the smallest and the biggest hearted buildings ever built

This seaside shelter in Cromer, Norfolk, UK, is reproduced from Will Scott: Seaside Shelters, Heni Publishing's delightful new collection of Scott's photos of the astonishing array of shelters that populate the British coastline. Essayist Edwin Heathcote describes the shelters as "one of the few examples of an arena in which the British succeeded in creating an enduring architecture for everyone: young and old, homeless, left-alone, cantankerous or drunk. Seaside shelters have no doors, no opening times, no profit motive and no real defined purpose. They are just there. They are, perhaps, paradoxically, among the saddest and the most joyous, the smallest and the biggest hearted buildings ever built."