From Troy to Hove - Brad Pitt's new career

Actor obsessed with architecture to work on £250m project

Richard Jinman
Friday May 27, 2005
The Guardian

        Brad Pitt and Frank Gehry, and the design for the Hove development Sea,
sand, skyscrapers...

As an actor, Brad Pitt tried to breach the walls of Troy. In real life,
the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team
behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.

Pitt, the 41-year-old star of movies such as Fight Club, Ocean's Eleven
and Troy, is designing a restaurant and a penthouse as part of architect
Frank Gehry's controversial £250m redevelopment of the Hove seafront.
The actor is not a qualified designer; he studied journalism at the
University of Missouri before embarking on a film career. But in
interviews he has often talked about his passion for architecture and
the work of leading practitioners such as Gehry and Rem Koolhaas.

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