August on Shelter – Shelter highlights for the month of August include Design e2, Full Frontage, Victoria and Never Too Small.
Travel to India, Colombia and the Netherlands and discover sustainable designs made reality; learn secrets of affordable home transformation from two New Zealand property experts; journey into the bizarre but alluring Californian city that never was; and sample some bite-sized tastes of small-living design this August on SHELTER.
PIONEERS & INNOVATORS IN SUSTAINABILITY: DESIGN e² SEASON 2
Follow the pioneers and innovators in the world of sustainable architecture, and see how their work is producing solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges in season 2 of DESIGN e².
Narrated by Golden Globe and Academy award winner Brad Pitt, this 6 episode season explores the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia’s use of urban planning to create alternatives to automobile culture; the rejuvenation of an abandoned Amsterdam dockyard to create high density, suburban-style housing without the sprawl; and the Druk White Lotus School in Ladakh, India, created through sustainable design driven by local culture and materials.
“The first thing we should understand is: what has been done already, that we can learn from?”
“It’s important that developers, city owners & urbanists take risks; architects always do!”
- DESIGN: E² Season 2 (6 x 60 mins) USA 2008 (Available August 7, Worldwide ex USA)
FROM WORST TO BEST: FULL FRONTAGE
Top landscape designer Justin Newcombe and real estate guru Mike Pero join forces to transform front yards around New Zealand from the worst house on the street to number one on the block in FULL FRONTAGE.
After an honest appraisal from Pero, each home is given a makeover plan from Newcome to dramatically improve the home’s street appeal to get owners the best possible sale price.
Working with a budget of up to $20,000 per property, Justin’s makeovers include practical know-how, step by step processes and top tips, advice and technique.
The series covers painting, planting, landscaping, lighting, fencing, minor repairs and small building projects, with the home owners themselves engaged in the overhaul and transformation of the property.
- FULL FRONTAGE (8 x 30 mins) NZ 2015 (Available August 14, Worldwide ex NZ)
THE CITY THAT NEVER WAS: VICTORIA
In the Southern California desert lies the unfinished California City.
Founded in 1958, this predesigned city was originally intended to mirror Los Angeles in size and population, but was never completed. Miles of streets and neighbourhoods were built, zoned and sold as the next step of the California Dream, but today remain empty.
While holding the third largest land mass of any city in the state, its population is just over 10,000.
After leaving behind his turbulent past in Los Angeles, VICTORIA follows the journey of Lashay T Warren, as he tries to make a fresh start within the grid of thousands of crumbling streets in California City. Employed as part of the Kern County Conservation Corps to maintain these eerily empty streets, Warren makes his way through the vast city on foot.
Warren reports about his encounters with his new and unfamiliar home in a diary, mirroring the early frontier pioneers of the Westward Expansion. Sharp-witted and playful, the diary excerpts show his wonder at his new desert surroundings, his efforts to obtain his high school diploma at the age of 26, and his absurd and endless job maintaining the disappearing streets of California City.
“He wanted to create a city like Los Angeles. He carved hundreds of thousands of streets into this desert. Then he left.”
- VICTORIA (71 mins) USA 2020 (Available August 21) Australian Premiere
New Episodes of small-living series NEVER TOO SMALL released every Friday.
Peak inside a warm, minimalist compact apartment conversion in one of the oldest urban areas of Taipei City; discover a state of the art eco-house set in perfect harmony with its Mt Kembla backdrop; and step through an architect couple’s chic & efficient apartment in Buenos Aires.
Featuring award-winning designers and their tiny / micro apartments, studios and self-contained projects, and with new episodes released every Friday, these are a perfect and inspirational taste of cutting edge interior and small-living design.
NEVER TOO SMALL provides a window into this world for inspiration and leadership in small footprint living.
“Through smart design and creative use of space, we can transform the way we live and interact with our growing cities.”
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