English Hertiage recently announced six options for the new Stonehenge visitors centre by Denton Corker Marshall. Each scenario involves the closure of the highway running right through the site and a transportation system for visitors to the site.
This new and controversial visitor center for Stonehenge seeks to improve access throughout this World Heritage Site, though that’s kinda hard to do when you move it two miles from the site. The £57m projects returns the site to the natural landscape, abandoning the car and modern interruption that has been so close to the site.
A I traveled to and from Stonehenge, I noticed the English stone walls surrounding the agricultural fields, a beatiful and down-to-earth human construct that must have taken many man hours. This design perhaps gleans from these walls, the most significant human interruption in the Salisbury region, and a significant modern connection the the stone henge. Its floorplan also speaks of the column and lintel pattern of Stonehenge itself.
Despite being approved years ago, there’s still no word on when it will open, though they had hoped for it to be ready by the 2012 Olympics.
