A rendering of the town proposed by Damien Hirst.

If you’re eager to live in a town built by the guy who soaked a shark in formaldehydeand erected a statue of a spliced-open pregnant woman, your dreams just got one step closer to reality.

U.K. shock-artist Damien Hirst floated plans last year to build an entire village from scratch on the British coast. Now those plans are about to come to fruition. As Feagus O’Sullivan reported in December for Next City:

Hirst plans to build a 187-acre, 750-home settlement near his own home outside the coastal town of Ilfracombe, a project that locals are already dubbing “Hirst-on-Sea.” His chosen collaborators, Architects Rundell Associates, have so far kept silent on the specifics – all that’s publicly known comes from some very vague renderings and a comment reported from a public meeting that Hirst “has a horror of building anonymous, lifeless buildings.” Still, with Hirst’s great wealth and his taste for grand guignol effects, one thing’s for sure: the resulting townscape, whatever it looks like, will generate buzz....Continue Reading

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