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Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
Iconic moments from the tail end of the eighties haunt me still: one of them the propensity for high hair and giant shoulderpads, another being the film Ferris Beuller’s Day Off. Although I never saw it at the cinema, I’ve watched it countless times since on video, cheering along with the crowd to “Save Ferris”,…
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Maori Architecture
Those of you with sharp eyes, or even sharp ears, will have seen, or heard, of Deidre Brown’s new book Maori Architecture.
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Video of the Week XV: Arch School
If you’re a student, or a graduate, or even an architect, then this video is for you. We’ve spoken before about how the drive towards reality TV has banalised everything on the box, and seems to drive students to take a degree in forensics and crime scene investigating: I’m sure you realise that they’re really…
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Now that’s deconstructivism…
…or has Prince Charles (also, see our other story here), finally developed psychokinetic powers of destruction for contemporary architecture…? Mwahahaha… Click here for the ‘real’ story…
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Video of the Week X: The first World Dynamic Architecture in DuBai project
Rubik’s Cube anyone? It is a bit hard to really say much about this, except point out that it is serious – I’ll never scoff at another student project again… The overblown rhetoric implied in the opening musical score ‘borrowed’ from 2001: A Space Odyssey is truly fantastic – like the mysterious black monolith that appears in the film…
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Rongotai Revived – a fisheyed view…
I have come to this a little late, as it has already been the subject of about 30 or so comments over on Eye of the Fish, and I did think that perhaps I wouldn’t bother posting anything on it given the stirling job they usually do over there. Then I read the post. Disappointingly,…
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Video of the Week IX: Le Corbusier’s Mediterranean cabanon comes to London
The blurb says: Le Corbusier’s summer cabin – a tiny bolthole built in the south of France for his wife – has been reconstructed at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. Jonathan Glancey steps inside to discover what it tells us about the architect’s other monumental buildings It’s kind of mind-blowing that it is in this space…
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An incredible hulk?
though I hate to be a conservative stickler, does anyone else see a similarity here? Jakob + MacFarlane project for the docks of Paris (click here for more)
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Video of the Week VIII: Mister Glasses (episode 1)
This is actually the first episode of 6 short stylishly noir Mister Glasses film clips (although for some reason episode 5 is missing). Never before has the relationship between love, sex, patricide, and Modernist architecture been so clearly expressed – it’s enough to make contemporary Modernist revivalism look hollow and superficial in comparison to the seriousness with…