Shelter: July highlights

Design & Architecture streaming platform Shelter will feature an exclusive live-stream event on the making of Follies in July.

Also this month, peek inside a Gothic tower that doubled as a nuclear fallout bunker, and ascend the inspiration for Saruman’s Orthanc and marvel at the extraordinary art & buildings of the religions of the East.

Live Stream Event: In Conversation with Rory Fraser & Andrew Spicer
8pm AEST July 15
Join the creative team behind the new Shelter Originals series Follies for the first-ever Shelter live streaming event on July 15 at 8pm AEST. Director Andrew Spicer and Writer / Presenter Rory Fraser join Shelter, live from the UK, for an exclusive insight into the history, creation and production of the Shelter Original Series FOLLIES. This event is available exclusively to Shelter subscribers.

Shelter Originals: Follies

Ep 3: Broadway Tower (15 mins) United Kingdom 2022
4 July
Floating high above the Cotswolds, Broadway Tower is the breathtaking embodiment of a new style of 18th Century architecture that revolutionised Western design: the Gothic. Inspired by the search for a more authentic English style, the Gothic is a homage to the bygone mythology of castles, battles and chivalry of medieval England. In this episode, Rory guides us through the tower’s many owners, from William Morris to the Ministry of Defence, celebrating Broadway as an unyielding bastion of patriotism, ideas and romance.
Ep 4: Faringdon Tower (15 mins) United Kingdom 2022
11 July
The final stop on Rory’s journey, Faringdon Tower introduces us to one of the 20th Century’s greatest eccentrics: Lord Berners. Although it was only built to save a small patch of woodland that Berners liked, Faringdon has become a much cherished local landmark. In this episode, Rory dives into the roaring twenties and investigates not only how the tower has made its way in the hearts of the local population, but also the mind of one of England’s greatest authors: J.R.R. Tolkien and his Lord of the Rings.

Art Of Faith Season 2
(3 x 55 mins) United Kingdom 2010
18 July
Art Of Faith II explores the architecture and art of Buddhism, Hinduism and Religions of the Tao presented and narrated by the broadcaster John McCarthy. These three 55-minute films travel the Eastern world, visiting the greatest and most significant religious buildings, exploring how the passions and complexities of religious beliefs have been expressed in architecture. Filmed for Sky Arts and looking back over the last 3000 years, the series provides an insight into how we have celebrated art through faith. With contributions from architects, scholars and worshippers, each episode explains the buildings’ genesis, laying down the brush strokes of the sites’ design, whilst looking at the shared elements and contrasts between religions and the aesthetics of the places of worship.

Openings
52 mins) Italy 2021
25 July
Openings explores the world of the architectural elements that “embody” the concept of threshold, of openness, and of the relationship between inside and outside, through the voices of Italian and international architects, but also by listening to the voices who speak the language of music, sports, art, and territory. Addressing the theme of the threshold, the film investigates the close relationship between art and life, between necessity and creative effort, between philosophy and civil thought. Along the Via Emilia, the geographical threshold par excellence, this journey is made of stops, crossings and wanderings. The guides include Davide Cassani (Italian national cycling team coach), Guido Guidi (photographer), Fiorenzo Valbonesi and Simone Sfriso (architects), as well as Raoul Casadei, the king of ballroom dancing, and Álvaro Siza, one of the great masters of contemporary architecture.