Two London architects have produced a touching short film to celebrate their own lived experience of bringing up families on a social-housing estate that is an icon of modernist design. The White Flats is an affectionate portrait of life on the Whittington estate in Camden, as seen through the eyes of residents – particularly some of the estate’s children.

The film was conceived as a tribute to the architect who designed the estate, Peter Tábori, who died last year. But producers Jo McCafferty, director at Levitt Bernstein, and Rachel Stevenson, from David Miller Architects, are also using it to share lessons about the estate’s community- and child-friendly features with other building designers and planners.

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