The seventh Harry Potter movie ends on the beach outside Bill and Fleur Weasley's Shell Cottage, and the new film gives a look at the house itself. "I try to find a logic for whatever the set is and somehow I felt it was wrong for [Shell Cottage] to be too whimsical, too fanciful," says production designer Stuart Craig. "So this cottage has a logic. If you really wanted to build a house on the beach, what would you do? Well, you would use local materials. And the local materials would be either rocks or seashells. The walls are huge oyster shells and the roof is made of big scallop shells. You can see how scallop shells can lend themselves to overlapping and shedding water. I was kind of pleased with the logic underlying the structure that we had found there."
In search of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Gringotts Wizarding Bank on Diagon Alley. Craig and his team designed the bank to reflect wealth and grandeur. "Banks are traditionally symbols of stability," he explains. "I know that recent history undid all this, but that is the intention in bank architecture—to convey this feeling of reassurance, of stabililty, of solidity. So our banking hall, like any other, is made of marble and big marble columns. And it has great strength."
One of the showdowns between Harry and Voldemort takes place on a catwalk beneath the battlement. "This was a way to make an interior/exterior space and to be able to move from one to another, which is always more interesting," explains Craig. "This long central catwalk gave us the opportunity to stage the confrontation between Voldemort and Harry very theatrically."
Read more: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/resources/features/2011/07/harry-potter-set-design-slideshow#ixzz1Q2huCkmW
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