Copenhagen, once the shining example of a humane and open city that was affordable for everyone, has turned into a bubble that is only accessible to the rich. Is Copenhagen forerunner for a development that other cities still have in store or have in a similar manner already embarked…
A story dedicated to two works by two great Italian architects of the twentieth century: Carlo Scarpa and Aldo Rossi. The Brion funeral complex and the San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena are the object of an emotional and symbolic journey into the visionary universe of the two architects, a journey…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Bjarke Ingels has rapidly become one of the design world’s biggest stars’ and his name recently appeared in TIME’S 100 Most Influential People. An intimate insight into the life of a genius innovative mind and his struggle to maintain his own persona while…
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…
The four-episode series filmed in the Netherlands, Austria, India and Peru introduces us to the world of architects trying to find solutions to the major challenges facing society today: climate change, rapid urban growth, local community involvement, education and migration . These architects are innovators in the field of climate-adapted…
A documentary film by architectural artists and filmmakers Beka & Lemoine tells a story of perseverance and hope through the work of Keisuke Oka, who expresses his resistance to the infernal machinery of the Tokyo metropolis in the form of a house. Trained in butoh dance, an avantgarde choreographic…
Butohouse is a captivating documentary film by directors Beka & Lemoine that tells a story of perseverance and hope by capturing the process by which Japanese artist Keisuke Oka builds his own house. He turns architecture into a spectacle using butoh dance as a source of inspiration – an avant-garde…
“If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?”CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE offers six startling responses. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves, examining human life from the unblinking perspective of a manmade structure. Six acclaimed…
When a foreign-owned developer seeks to destroy Spadina Gardens, a quirky cast of unlikely activists battle to safeguard a Toronto historical landmark they consider themselves the caretakers of. Built in 1904, the half-block mid-rise apartment complex at Spadina and Lowther is the oldest Toronto building to maintain its original floor…
While easily among the most privileged of Toronto’s constituents, the fight to preserve Spadina Gardens nevertheless offers insights into the current housing crisis and about the solidarity required to preserve the rapidly disappearing soul of the city.
The mountain villages of the North-West Himalaya are the most remote, highest inhabited place on the planet. Children of the Snow Land is a feature documentary which gives the viewer the experience of being transported back to ways of life that have remained unchanged for the past 2,000 years,…
In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York,…
