Brad Pitt likes to talk about how he originally wanted to be an architect, which would have robbed us of such film classics as… Anyway, before he became 24/7 tabloid fodder, he wanted to design buildings for a living. And now he’s getting his chance!
Brad Pitt, the star of “Fight Club” and “Ocean’s 11″ who professes a passion for architecture, will be a design consultant for an 800-room hotel and resort Zabeel Properties plans to build in Dubai, the developer said.
Zabeel, based in Dubai, hired architecture firm Graft LLC to design an America-themed hotel in the United Arab Emirates city, the closely held developer said today in a statement… “Acting is my career, architecture is my passion,” Pitt said in the statement. As “my first major construction project,” the Dubai hotel will feature “environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment.”
What, Meet Joe Black posters above all the recycling bins?
It’s kind of funny that the hotel will be “environmentally friendly,” considering Dubai itself is the least environmentally friendly place on earth. Per capita, Dubai has the biggest ecological footprint in the world according to the World Wildlife Fund. (The United States is in second place, and everybody knows how much we hate the planet.) They keep littering the place with artificial islands that destroy coral reefs, they’ve got one of the busiest airports in the world, and they’re fond of building things like indoor ski slopes where you can cavort in the snow while it’s hot enough outside to roast a chicken. They’re rich enough to do any damn thing they please, no matter how decadent or how much it hurts the environment.
But hey… Brad Pitt!
(Hat tip to Deceiver reader Sophie Hall)
Brad can do whatever he wants to the environment as long as he keeps staring at me with those dreamy eyes. I go to great lengths to sit through Brad Pitt’s movies with my wife. You know what I’m sayin’. Now I know what you’re thinking. It’s okay. Because I’m probably thinking of him too.
Brad probably one day decided having architecture as a “passion” would make him more interesting to the movie going public. To play along with the charade he now has to act excited and passionate everytime he walks into any office building, home or shed.
Does Brad Pitt have any education or expertise in architecture and design that qualify him to be a “design consultant”?
Oh, that’s right, he’s a major celebrity, thus he can do anything. My bad.
Ok, I know I’m probably going to get skewered for saying this, but isn’t it a GOOD thing that Brad Pitt wants to build an environmentally friendly hotel in a country that is extremely unfriendly to the environment? Isn’t this better than building another 800 room monstrosity that is built with no regard for the environment?
I wish he would have become an architect, so there would be no Brangelina or snoozefest movies (excluding Seven, which I liked, although his role was probably replacable anyway…).
He’s such an attention whore. He likes slathering his name all over his little projects for the media, while pretending he hates the attention he gets. He AND his wife.
As a matter of fact, if he has such a hard on for building sh*t, why doesn’t he just leave the limelight and fade into obscurity while he goes out and contribute to third world countries and save the trees?
I doubt the sincerity of his actions, as well as his wife’s. All it looks like to me is a publicity redemption effort. Because let’s face it, Brad Pitt needs to draw as much attention possible away from the fact that he jumps from Hollyweird’s Flavor of the Week in women, and his personality-devoid puppetmaster Angelina Jolie needs to draw attention away from the fact that she was a blood-drinking sociopathic attention whore who made out with her brother at an awards show, and jumped from dick to dick of said man giving her attention at the time. What I’m trying to say is, neither one of them seem like good people to me, and I think that Brad Pitt truly believes he’s redeeming himself from the negative attention. Sadly, it seems to be working partially.
yeah… like the eco friendly homes he was all into building in the slums of new orleans. there is a whole subdivision with ONE house on it.
he doesnt owe those people anything, but dont make promises you dont intend to keep.
Art Vandalay.