View the future City of London with Duncan, Londoner #216

Duncan is an architectural model maker. Pipers Model Making created a model of the whole of the City of London. For the 2016 London Real Estate Forum the model moved from its usual spot in the Guildhall to Mayfair, requiring four hours of dismantling and a day of reassembling.

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This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a ten-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.

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TRANSCRIPT

This is Principal Place Tower. It has come back for some repairs. I don't think it has a nickname yet. But it was... the Shoreditch finger was one name they toyed with.

You get a different design every month. Every couple of weeks you're working on a different project. And even now a lot of the buildings are similar, they're all unique. And you get to see what's gonna be built before it's built, which is really good. I have been in Berlin and then suddenly turned a corner and gone: I recognise that. And then it looks just like we made it.

Least favourite? Euhm, for me it's mostly aesthetics. But there are sometimes, you see things you wish hadn't been built.

The model in the Guildhall is a model of the City of London. It was started as a project in the 90s. And now it's, every new major development gets made in detail and put on the model. So the planners can see what it looks like, the public can see what it looks like and the architect can see what it looks like in context. See how it fits into the skyline or into the streetscape. See if everything fits, really.

How do I see it? (Filmmaker Ross) Yeah. (Duncan) Euhm, well I see it as, mostly as my job to look after it. But, but as a… I see it as a… a view of the future.

We are moving it to the London Real Estate Forum exhibition. It takes four hours to dismantle and a day to reassemble. It 's a centrepiece for the exhibition, really. We did try to extend it once to Westminster, but we found the City is more of a… a money powerhouse where they can afford to have their buildings put on there. And it's constantly changing, the City. It's constantly being rebuilt.

(Ross) What do you think a city needs and maybe doesn't need? Well I think that, as most cities, they need infrastructure, they need space, they need green space, which is something that's lacking in the City. And they need euhm… they need places for people to live, as well as work. Which is what's happening in the City now: there's much more residential being built within the City. Whereas 30 years ago, it was almost purely office and commercial buildings.

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