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Film
on 07-06-2022
The Plus is a factory and experience center east of Oslo, Norway, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group for urban furniture manufacturer Vestre. A short film takes viewers above and inside the carbon-neutral facility that opens this month. John Hill
Film
on 06-06-2022
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) has been posting short films of the twenty shortlisted projects in the running for the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture to its YouTube channel. John Hill
Film
on 24-05-2022
On the occasion of Forensic Architecture – Witnesses, the fifth exhibition in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's "The Architect’s Studio" series, the museum presents a... John Hill
Film
on 19-05-2022
This month the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) announced that the long-awaited Taipei Performing Arts Center is finally complete, with the official opening taking place in August. A five-minute film takes viewers inside the building. John Hill
Film
on 16-05-2022
The Bubble, a 2021 film directed by Valerie Blankenbyl about The Villages, Florida – with over 150,000 residents, it is the largest retirement community in the world – won Best Documentary Feature Film at the BARQ Festival. John Hill
Film
on 05-05-2022
Spazio Projects, the YouTube channel of Spazio, the bookstore, gallery, and "independent platform for critical reflection, speculation and discussion" in Milan, features videos with readings from books about architecture. John Hill
Film
on 27-04-2022
Artist and architectural designer James Wines is profiled in a short film that launches the new "Built Ecologies: Architecture and Environment" video series from MoMA’s Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment. John Hill
Film
on 20-04-2022
On April 26, 2022, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) is launching What's Out There Olmsted, a digital guide to hundreds of landscapes in North America designed by Olmsted and his successor firms. John Hill
Film
on 13-04-2022
Architectural photographer and filmmaker Hans Georg Esch (aka HGEsch) presents a short film with video footage of numerous buildings in Europe and Asia designed by Tadao Ando, from the UNESCO Meditation Space in Paris to the Chichu Art Museum in Naoshima, Japan. John Hill
Film
on 05-04-2022
With construction wrapping up on 111 West 57th Street, the super-skinny supertall designed by SHoP Architects for JDS Development, we present some footage by The Dronalist that shows how it and its Billionaire's Row neighbors are reshaping the Manhattan skyline. John Hill
Film
on 29-03-2022
Spirit of Space visits the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, California, to speak with Olson Kundig partner Alan Maskin about the design of the play spaces inside and outside the museum. John Hill
Film
on 22-03-2022
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has released two more short videos made as part of its Find and Tell program, in which scholars in residence at the CCA discuss some of their discoveries in the CCA's extensive archive. John Hill
Film
on 15-03-2022
Francis Kéré talks about his contributions as an architect, how he builds in his home town of Gando, the role of trees in his design, and more in five short films made on the occasion of being named John Hill
Film
on 08-03-2022
A short film made in 2020 draws attention to the Soviet-era modernist apartment buildings in Kyiv's Left Bank, which local tour guide Nate Robert describes as "the largest area of urban decay anywhere in the former Soviet Union." John Hill
Film
on 01-03-2022
The World Monuments Fund has revealed its 2022 World Monuments Watch, "a selection of 25 heritage sites of extraordinary cultural significance facing global challenges and whose preservation is urgent and vital to local communities." A video announcement discusses some of the sites and the... John Hill
Film
on 18-02-2022
Brad Cloepfil, founding principal of Allied Works, and Joyce Tsai, the director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado, talk about the numerous qualities of the museum devoted to artist Clyfford Still on the building's tenth anniversary. John Hill
Film
on 14-02-2022
The latest architecture-themed short film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art features Marc-Christoph Wagner speaking with architect Lina Ghotmeh at her studio in Paris about the Stone Garden apartment building in Beirut. John Hill
Film
on 08-02-2022
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen visits Sent, Switzerland, to speak with Not Vital, the artist who has long been interested in building and in turn creates sculptural works that at times are as much architecture as art. John Hill
Film
on 27-01-2022
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art spoke with British architect Peter Cook at his London studio in January, just before the opening of City Landscapes at the Danish Museum. John Hill
Film
on 21-01-2022
NOWNESS presents Energy of the Land, a short film with Kengo Kuma speaking about his geologically inspired design of the Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokorozawa, not far from Tokyo. John Hill
Film
on 11-01-2022
A short film by 9sekunden presents the Kunsthaus Zürich extension that was designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and opened in October 2021. Filmed during the preview last spring, the film highlights the contemplative nature of the building, which borders on the monastic as the... John Hill
Film
on 05-01-2022
The answer, from director Altor Bigas in a short but dense film about the building at 43 Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona designed by Antoni Gaudí nearly 120 years ago: "CASA BATLLÓ - This Is Not A House." John Hill
Film
on 07-12-2021
The same week that Barbados removed Queen Elizabeth as head of state and became a republic, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley announced the creation of the Barbados Heritage District, featuring a slavery memorial designed by Adjaye Associates, which released a short film visualizing the... John Hill
Film
on 30-11-2021
OPEN Architecture's Chapel of Sound is a semi-outdoor concert hall this sits on the floor of a valley north of Beijing famous for hosting remnants of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall. A short film captures the spatial and acoustical qualities of the recently completed building. John Hill
Film
on 22-11-2021
The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow has unveiled SANAA's design that will revive The Hexagon, a building with six pavilions originally designed by Ivan Zholtovsky. Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa explain their design in a short film. John Hill
Film
on 17-11-2021
As part of the two-part exhibition at Wrightwood 659, Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright, Chicago cultural historian emeritus Tim Samuelson gives short video tours of five demolished Louis Sullivan buildings in the Loop. John Hill
Film
on 12-11-2021
M+ opened to the public on Friday, November 12, in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, in a building designed by Herzog & de Meuron. Billed as Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture, M+ opened with approximately 1,500 works on display. A fifteen-minute film from... John Hill
Film
on 10-11-2021
CROSSROADS: Life in the Resilient City is a short film by Nils Clauss and Neil Dowling that tells five stories in five cities — New York, Seoul, Mumbai, Paris, Nairobi — inspired by this year's Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. John Hill
Film
on 03-11-2021
Ricardo E. Bofill — the son of famed architect Ricardo Bofill Levi, who founded Taller de Arquitectura in 1963 — answers "what is architecture?" and other questions posed by a group of architects from Innsbruck in the latest installment of WIA. John Hill
Film
on 27-10-2021
A new short film from Spirit of Space captures people relaxing and playing in Brooklyn Bridge Park, the post-industrial waterfront park designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates that recently won the 2021 Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize. John Hill
Film
on 20-10-2021
The wedge-shaped tower designed by Herzog & de Meuron for the SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation recently opened to the public in Seoul, complete with an exhibition on the Swiss architects. Jacques Herzog discusses the building and exhibition in a short film made by the firm. John Hill
Film
on 18-10-2021
American architect Oswald Nagler discusses the "House without Walls" he designed more than sixty years ago in Rangoon, Burma — present-day Yangon, Myanmar — in a short film made by Eduard Kögel as part of the Encounters with Southeast Asian Modernism project. John Hill
Film
on 07-10-2021
The winners of the Young Talent Architecture Award 2020 received their awards in a ceremony on September 28 at Palazzo Michiel in Venice. To celebrate their victories and the hard work the winners put into their student projects, here we present the short films documenting their projects —... John Hill
Film
on 29-09-2021
Kieran Long, director of ArkDes and curator of Sigurd Lewerentz: Architect of Death and Life, speaks in a short film about the famous Swedish architect and the much-anticipated exhibition opening at ArkDes on October 1, 2021. John Hill
Film
on 28-09-2021
The Playscape is a children’s community centre housed in a former industrial complex north of Beijing that dates to the 1970s. The design by waa (we architech anonymous) is a fantastical landscape of mounds, pipes, slides, nets, and other features depicted in a short film made by Studio FF. John Hill
Film
on 22-09-2021
"Stop Architectural Deforestation!," a 15-minute film produced for Contested Modernities, now on display in Berlin, argues "that the discussion of heritage conservation has to move towards a more holistic view that includes an ethical discourse of environmental and social... John Hill