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like every day in fact is a taste of what's coming up. a change of scenery in the murphy house in edinburgh nothing remains the saying. hold your horses prairie horses or an old tradition of it take effect in munich. and joie de vivre living it up on the banks of the river then and iris. levels over a five floor was how is that even possible well it certainly sounds intriguing and that is why we were so keen to visit the murphy house in edinburgh scotland the british architect to ten years to make his dream a reality and it was definitely worth the wait last year he received six awards for his work including the rebbe house of the year prize being a fine example of how to overcome it challenging spatial constraints. this house is full of surprises sliding all pivoting panels transform each space

they can be found throughout the entire structure. this is the murphy house designed and owned by architect richard murphy. in two thousand and sixteen it was named house of the year by the royal institute of british architects. there are lots of ideas behind this has how it fits into a piece of historic edinburgh how it changes between winter and summer how you got a lot of rooms into a very small space save energy and how an architect really brings to bear his own inferences interests of other architects he started. that's quite a new it's a volume of space so the shape of the house came from that building up high on one

side and low on the other and then try to as i say get as lots of many rooms in those possible i'm using those devices to make the house feel bigger that it actually is. the naafi house and it's unique architecture certainly stands out in edinburgh as popular in district most of the houses here were built in the nineteenth century and represent the world's largest example of uninterrupted like georgian architecture. the not the house eight levels spread over five stories with one hundred forty square metres of living space. it took richard murphy a total of ten years to build his house from seeing the site drawing up the plans to getting the building permits. the master bedroom is located on the top floor and also contains large movable panels here to. there is an element of surprise. it's a small house and space is

a premium but i want to have a bath somewhere in the house so i thought why didn't i put a bath in the bedroom but i disguised it. as a seat. this is a panel which opens up between in the country and in the living room i mean one does things for different reasons sometimes you do them for functional reasons and sometimes you do the for piece of fun this is more of a piece of fun so that when you're in the bedroom you can talk to people down in the living if you want to the reason it's designed like this such as the eccentric pivots is because you don't want to be able to see straight ahead because if you saw straight ahead you will see from the bed into the neighbor's windows which is not such a clever idea. there was a long period of time when it looked like a matthew house would never be found. after a lot of wrangling with the planning department they actually recommended refusal

but i went and talked to a couple of local councillors who were on the planning committee and they understood what i was trying to do and they talked to other councillors and we got to the committee meeting the council's overturn the recommended refuse of the plan is extremely rare the house doesn't really blend in so what are the neighbors think they'll complain of course so lots of them did anyway and there was a bit of a campaign but almost to quote shakespeare they complained a little bit too much actually and i think that rebounded a bit on the councillors having finished the house i thought exactly the opposite reaction from neighbors they all love it. navvies use of concrete levels and geometric shapes were inspired by the ninety tally an architect can. even hear out in the garden there is great attention to detail. on.

a walk from top to bottom helps get the visitor a better idea of all the details of the house. richard murphy has lived in his house for two and a half years now and he wouldn't change a thing if he had to build it all over again. as like an adult playhouse what a fabulous design now heading south from scotland to london we have news on two other events taking place this week that and more coming up for you now in our express. the spy comedy kings man of the golden circle premiered in london on monday british director matthew vaughn secured a star studded cast for the production of the line up includes julianne moore.

jeff bridges halle berry terrine egerton colin firth and musician elton john to place himself kingsmen the golden circle is based on a comic series the first film episode kingsmen the secret service was released in twenty fourteen and a sequel of the suave british gentleman joined forces with u.s. allies in their mission to save the world. forty eight ballerinas from the shanghai ballet gave a surprise performance at and perhaps main train station on monday travelers watch them dancing scenes from tchaikovsky's swan lake. the shanghai ballet is on tour in the belgian city from the beginning of october they'll be performing what's being billed as the biggest production of swan like in the world.

julien macdonald presented his new collection at london fashion week on monday it was inspired by a recent visit to the amazon rainforest and brazilian supermodel on a summer ambrosio even pointing out a parent's. top shelf showcased glitter feathers and soft goals the fabrics and a collection of jeans. spring summer two thousand and eighteen would also see the return of the trademark. around the world in eighty days by bicycle that's the challenge british extreme sportsman mark bowman set himself and successfully completed in fact he took one and a half days less to cycle twenty nine thousand kilometers around the globe to be precise he did it in seventy eight days fourteen hours and forty minutes a new world record to achieve that he had to cycle an average of three hundred eighty six kilometers per day he arrived in paris on monday welcomed by his family

. yesterday on the show if you are watching you would have seen me in a dental it is custom to wear these decision or costumes at the october fest but that applies not just to the men and women the horse is even have their own traditional attire it takes a lot of preparation to get the horses ready for the big public parent and we headed to the stables to say how it all comes together. these traditional brewery horse teams are on their way to the october fest but the barrels are empty because nowadays the bear is brought to the tents by truck. by the heavy draft horses remain an attraction for the public. for their groom baptist falter the show is all part and parcel of his job his

working day begins and early in the stables in munich. this was in the village of the augustine a breweries traditional horse stables when horses were used trunks this was where the horses were always kept in the animals transported every day during the october first the ten horses are also captive we come in eight days ahead of time to accustom them to city traffic and then they housed in the stables throughout the old type of festival. for three weeks each year baptists falter lives here with his horses normally there at home and push its reading lower varia but munich spirits no longer keep their own animals and have to borrow them and someone to look after them for the october fest. or to the will have on during the week we start at six a.m. i feed them clean out their stalls and then wash the horses or at ten thirty i harness them and then we head off for they ought to have a vast areas of. the fields a family have been taking part in the event for generations on

a trip to france but at least father discovered a new breed pressure on draft horses from normandy. twenty france draft horses her own pleasure are they come from normandy that bred. ninety percent of his race a white seventy ten percent are black and we need new horses we try to normandy in france it is not always that easy to find good horses. good if you had a bit of innit. began accompanying his father first when he was a young boy. just worked up about it if you know it's a lot of fun to work with horses he'll be a style humans have their own special charm in the procession you see them holding their heads up high and i different style in as much my beautiful than i imagined in contrast to humans manners and ideas i'm not here to tell you that it's only animal kingdom the males are more attractive. it takes an hour every day to put on

the horses splendid historical harnesses and each horse gets a hoof pedicure to. the teesta his helpers have to decorate and harness ten horses every day just imagine what he used to be like every day at breweries in days gone by a lot of responsibility rests on betty's fault his shoulders but he knows his horses. every day you have to make sure once again that everything is as it should be unfortunately these animals aren't in a good mood every day just like us but today's ok. it's he lets on is this guy an affront to never be off for a week. but taste gives the signal to start at the brewery horse team representing munich's oldest brewery which is made up of french horses from know

about the area set out for the october fest. the horses and grooms are among the most photographed at the festival between the thronging crowd on the bustling stands the beautiful passionate are a source of calm and proof that tradition lives on at the october fest now in its one hundred eighty fourth year. well if you would like to win yourself a taste of the action then head to our website and let us know what you would like to see written on the traditional gingerbread hearts at the end of the way we will pick a winner and these three gifts will be yours your personalized cookie the t. shirt here and the beer stein both complete with the october fest logo that you can see on them just. now time for a bit of intricate filmmaking stop motion animation has been

a popular art form for a while now but it's still constantly evolving with new technology being developed all the time a detail storyline is currently in production here in berlin but as you know it is painstakingly slow it won't hit the big screen for a while yet but we got a special look behind the scenes. neemo lives in a fishing village where everyone has to wear clothes associated with their job that's how this maritime story begins. anymore so naima wears a huge helmet the whole time but everyone laughs the daring precisely because of his helmet or because no one else where something like it and you can hear him play . and that is why he lives by himself all alone in a remote like house but then one night everything changes when the young astronaut lika turns up outside his door she's wearing a pink helmet just like him. the potsdam film student government dreamt up the

story of like you and me most six years ago when he was wandering around berlin. on a playground i found a t. shirt showing a deep sea diver and an astronaut i was fascinated by for some reason i wanted to have a teacher and i can't but i couldn't find one and so i took the image with me in my monitor because by the time i greet us the subway station so i come up with much of the story behind the course. during filming director sebastian goodson is working on like his helmet stop motion animation films are his passion unlike digital animations they involve real sets. where we put an email inside the set of the village and saw it for the first time it was like magic and we can now see it in its animated for all we really get goosebumps neemo suddenly comes to life and it's no longer just a lifeless figure a puppet. this you were the poor. the students started working on the

film two years ago they wrote the story created a story board and got professional help to make the figures one thousand like a is a puppet maker the work can be fun but also frustrating everything has to be exact and that can be time consuming. but who isn't a sacrifice i can't really say how long it takes a kind of lost my sense of time that's how it is. it's certainly taken a very long time ago you have to remember that i had like this which is not very large and also be shown in closeup in the film. on the most even imagine what that looks like when you were directed onto a cinema screen so you can see every little things that you may be councell with the naked eye when you see it blown up on a silver screen you can see everything. in course of. this market needs about two months to create a figure the fifteen minute long film is meant to have twenty characters and nine

cents and sometimes the students work on it round the clock it's a highly intense creative process. it's hired the students have the time and funding to do this thanks to outside sponsors and they have the technical back up here at the film university this project involves students from many different departments so they have a chance to create a project from start to finish that also some unknown says that's the sequences are put together from individual photos the story is about marginalization and trust and without a single spoken word. it works much better internationally if language isn't involved and if the fame is all about accepting different cultures and building trust and and of course it's a matter of the film can be understood by people of all different languages and culture and switched on and you know. it's taken a whole day to create four seconds of film so neemo won't be in cinemas for a while here it. is a lot of work having to create brand new says for each location often filmmakers

cheat and use a different location to replicate another one the diversity of the berlin streets has made this city a great location for all kinds of shades and today's high five highlights our favorites for that to be shocked i certainly was. five places that palin has doubled for in a movie shoot. a robbery at london's bank of england. jackie chan is skates from the police by the skin of his teeth and vanishes into the crowds. but wait a minute was not. french cathedral in the background. erect while shooting around the world in eighty days in two thousand and three gallons square doubled for the british capital number five. and the neighboring berlin concert hall doubles for

britain's royal academy of science. big ben was later added in digital a. tough times for secret agent jason bourne aka matt damon in the bourne ultimatum while recovering from amnesia he's got to flee from evil villains he isn't even safe in moscow but in reality this scene was shot at least in station in fact the makers of the bone series were quite fond of east berlin moscow ask flat. with plenty of ladders and extras donning russian fur hats they transformed into moscow to film parts of the bone supremacies. brainiest and number four. this here is palin's historic spittal market square and. this is balanced here

garden tunnel which hadn't yet been opened when the film was shot incidentally matt damon is a big fan of lenin enjoys working in the nearby film studios even said so in the guest book. filmmakers are also fond of shooting nazi films and quentin tarantino's inglourious basterds for example was produced. film studios and partly shot in berlin largely set in france number three. in this scene valves and melanie are at a prison café are they in reality this was filmed in berlin's cafe einstein this star studded interrogation scene set in a french countryside in. was actually shot at questions ballroom venue in balance. with the film's legendary showdown set somewhere in the french words was in fact

filmed at fort hunter back on the outskirts of. director tom. loves filming and his thriller the international kicked off the two thousand and nine international film festival then features prominently in it there's one scene supposedly depicting a bank in luxembourg number two. with the with the staff. at the scene was actually shot on balance famous sony center. and now for something more somber parts of the us saga the hunger games set in the totalitarian world of pan am was shot in one of the most sought after locations. the city's now defunct tempelhof airport which ranks among the world's largest

buildings. doubling as number one pick for places the german capital has doubled from. other sites have also featured in the gloomy world of pan am such as an old heating plant as the backdrop to a subterranean rebel stronghold in district thirteen. and an underpass near berlin's exhibition center was used for a dramatic. evidently berlin boasts great film locations for ranger films even signed with the aid of a little digital editing. interior design at its best check out our you tube channel d.w. interior design stunning design ideas spectacular buildings and d.i.y. tutorials on home decoration we'll take you inside the most beautiful european homes show you the latest in furniture fabrics and accessories subscribe and don't

miss out see you on you tube. now many cities are built up on the banks of a large river this is because of the days gone by when trading by sea was an important part of the country's economy nowadays the river banks are seen as attractions where locals and turf the like can go to relax by the water's edge within the ice. to emphasize a day we went to explore the rivers there and in the french capital as there are endless things to do that maybe the rest of europe could learn a thing or two from the french. it's morning in paris and the city's residents are already busy exercising beside their river far eastern relaxation and meditation classes are free of charge on the banks of the sand. it's fantastic air is so relaxing it's like

being on vacation. in twenty sixty motorised traffic was banned from a major road along the same since then the whole of paris seems to have taken to leisure the riverside strolls lots of things here are free of charge. like bike hire for children the flora fair ones crammed with cars has become a wellness always is for stressed out city dwellers and tourists. it's lovely and i'm really drawn to it i'd like to just sit down here and so kind of atmosphere it really feels like summer. you can tow up and down the sand on the back to boost a kind of floating bus and all day ticket costs seven thousand euros. and people looking for exercise and company can take part in dance courses. that are good for tourist and french people can get a taste of her easy and. i'm working

a lot at the moment and dancing reduces my stress. in the evening the riverside turns into one big party location. some people like to bring an aperitif of their own. it's usually so crowded you can't find a place to sit during vacation season it's easier when many people are away. paris and the sand are falling in love all over again. what a lovely relax by to have right in the middle of the city. it does bring us to the end of the show for today though but we will be back tomorrow at the same time a place you can join thanks. to you. next time on your own max the shot it's butin is marking its one hundred fiftieth anniversary at the october fest this year that makes it the oldest institution at

the world famous festival and the family who have been running it since eight hundred sixty seven will be celebrating their success in style will be raising a glass or two shot on the next edition of your own max.

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