Conceived back in the late sixties, Centreplan 70 was the name of a master-plan to redevelop Cardiff’s city centre. Thankfully it was never realised, due in part to the 1970s property recession.

This film is my cut on the original, which was made in promotion of the scheme. Unfortunately, the sound has been lost but one could imagine a suitably optimistic voice-over speculating on future benefit.

Instead I have used this re-work to symbolise and enhance, in retrospect, the potential short-comings of such a vision. It seeks to portray the Architect as the egotistical overlord, the antithesis of which is the crux of my primer project and subsequent thesis.

I have also introduced a soundtrack: String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima) by Philip Glass.