Brutal London: Concrete, Straight Lines and Why I Love Brutalist Architecture
I love Brutalist architecture in London. There, I’ve said it. It’s ugly. Or at least, that’s what a lot of people will tell you. Huge slabs of concrete, hard edges,…
House of the Dragon Season 2: Location Scouting for Westeros
Based on material from George R. R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon tells the story of the Dance of the Dragons and the events leading up to…
Finding Napoleon: Scouting Ridley Scott’s Epic Across the UK
When you’re asked to find 18th-century France, Belgium, Austria, Italy and Russia, but mainly across London and the UK, you know the location brief is going to be an interesting…
Financial Times: How Location Scouts Find the Perfect Film Locations
I was delighted to be interviewed by the Financial Times House & Home for a feature exploring how film location scouts and location managers find and secure extraordinary properties for…
See How They Run Filming Locations: Scouting 1950s London
Set in 1950s London, See How They Run follows plans for a movie version of a smash-hit West End play that come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member…
Filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: Bringing Terry Gilliam’s Magical World to Life in Clerkenwell (2008)
Some film locations simply tick the boxes on a script. Others become characters in the story themselves. When director Terry Gilliam was searching for a London location for The Imaginarium…