17 Oct, 2021 @ 11:15
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SQUID GAME: Did Netflix drama take a cue from iconic housing estate in Calpe on Spain’s Costa Blanca?

La Muralla Roja Flickr Rbta2009 Creative Commons

IT is the Korean TV series that has proved a massive hit.

Squid Game, the dystopian tale where contestants play children’s games with the penalty for losing being death, is noted for its set design.

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Its sharp geometric shapes and vibrant colours stand out – but are eerily similar to a famous housing estate in Calpe (Alicante.

La Muralla Roja Flickr Rbta2009 Creative Commons
STRIKING: La Muralla Roja in Calpe. Picture: Fickr rbta2019 Creative Commons

La Muralla Roja is famous as an example of post-modern architecture. Designed by architect Ricardo Bofill in 1968 and finished in 1973, it features interconnected communal plazas and bridges. It’s painted red on the outside but has internal sections painted blue and violet, and would seem to have been a stunning influence on Squid Game designers.

They, however, have remained tight-lipped and not commented on the similarities.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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