Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital wants to demolish the notorious former animal research facility known as the Mäusebunker, but a stalwart group of gallerists, architects and preservationists push to landmark and re-use this uncompromisingly unique work of architecture. Preservation can be brutal.
Best in the World provides a revealing look beyond the photogenic image of Copenhagen. The Danish capital is often considered one of the most liveable, inclusive and creative cities in the world. But this was not always the case. Thirty years ago, Copenhagen was an industrial city on the brink…
A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge, an impossible deadline, two warring political titans and a blind competition that chose – the wrong guy?A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge and impossible deadline, two warring political titans and an architect who has never built…
Iľja Skoček is a co-author of one of the most distinctive and most important buildings of Slovak modernity. The film is his portrait, but it also tries to go beyond architecture as a topic. It’s about life. It’s about the past and the future. It’s about the way of thinking.
Travel opportunities to picture postcard perfection destinations have multiplied. From Cinque Terre to Venice, London or Barcellona, and Norwegian fjords, the film explores mass tourism sites and asks whether it is sustainable: can popular tourism balance the needs of travelers and residents? Tourism halted with the March 2020 lockdown and…
Shelter Without Shelter is the story of the great hopes and profound challenges of sheltering forced migrants across Europe and the Middle East. Filmed over three years, this documentary feature takes you behind the scenes to the realities of refugee shelters, the people who created them, and the migrants who…
An influential man, former Prime Minister of Georgia, has a special kind of hobby. He buys and collects ancient trees and plants them on the coastline, in his private garden and some of them reach as high as a 16-story building. Needless to say, the complexity involved by the process…
Former lead architect OMA Floris Alkemade interrupted his upward career to represent his innovative ideas at the decision-making level as Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands. The independent filmmaker André de Laat accompanied him behind the scenes for three years. He followed him to attics, cellars and construction sites where…
An odyssey through the life and legacy of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the innovative artist and educator whose pioneering approach to integrating technology into design continues to influence and inspire. In the 1920s, rising artist László Moholy-Nagy taught at the revolutionary Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany, alongside luminaries like Paul Klee, Wassily…
The global population is set to rise by billions in the coming decades, with the majority of these new earthlings living in cities. A different architecture will be required to keep future urban living pleasant and healthy, says Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV, a globally operating firm of architects. Instead…
