Category Archives: Architecture

How much does your building weigh Mr Foster?

Normal Foster undoubtedly is one of the most influential and best architects in the world, and a basic iconic figure to understand the evolution of architecture in the last quarter of the XXth century and the beginning of the XXIst.

How much does your building weigh Mr Foster? is a fantastic documentary film tracing Foster from ……

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The life and work of Bernini Documentary

Gian Lorenzo Bernini is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the history of art. Born in Naples in 1598, he primarily worked in rome, where he died in 1960 at the age of 62.

Specially known for his unique ability to capture, in marble, the essence of a narrative moment with a dramatic naturalistic realism ……

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Superb animation of Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

In 1935, with the world trying to recover from the First World War and soon to be engaged in the second one and in the middle of a conceptual battle between the new and the old and capitalism and communism, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the american architect Frank Lloyd Right presented the ……

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Zaha Hadid wins the Jane Drew Prize

Zaha Hadid has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture

The Architect’s Journal Women in Architecture judging panel came to the unanimous decision on Friday. The panel included Richard Rogers, chief executive Martha Thorne of the Pritzker Prize, chief executive Laura Lee of Maggie’s Centres, design director ……

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Documentary – Sir Norman Foster – “Building the Gherkin”

At the end of the Last Century, the european insurance conglomerate Swiss Re didn’t find a suitable space to group its operations in London’s financial district. It mandated world acclaimed architect Sir Norman Foster to solve the problem, which he did by proposing a building that would change the architectural paradigm, shifting from boxed like ……

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Astonishing Mapping the Facade of the Frank Gehry IAC HQ for the Vimeo Festival – The Lightline of Gotham!

When the CEO of IAC, Bruce Foley, was looking for a show to round up the Vimeo video festival, a 3D mapping on the Facade of Frank Gehry’s IAC Headquarters was proposed, the result “Lighting Gotham” was so impressive that the company decided to share it with the general public.… Continue reading

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Cultural Beacons: Zaha Hadid and the Guangzhou Opera House Documentary

Short documentary video on Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House building… Continue reading

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