Tag: video
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Video of the Week – Future by Airbus
It has been a busy week here at the Architectural Centre website, but I couldn’t not post this one – so here is a little something for your Friday afternoon entertainment: Sweet!
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Too much reinforcing?
I hope the engineer who worked on this build hasn’t relocated to Wellington… could be a worry in a quake… and then there’s this:
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Video of the Week XIV: Free Avone
Here is a concept, as presented by Graffiti Research Lab, that I quite enjoy. Of course, it isn’t exactly original, and Wellington architecture has seen its fair share of projected imagery, from the poppies on parliament by our own RSA to body moving at Te Papa. Thus, I guess it must be the ever so slight frisson…
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Video of the Week XIII: algorithmic architecture
Design for a hotel in Wellington, New Zealand using algorithmic architecture generated in Max Script, from 2007 by VUW student Daniel Davis… I’ll leave the commentary up to you this time…
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Video of the Week XII: Poundbury: Building Communities
Here is a companion piece to the Prince Charles post of a couple of weeks ago (I hope it is clear by now that my Zaha comments were made with tongue embedded firmly in cheek…). Here, for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure perhaps?), is a very short clip propounding the virtues of Poundbury: What do…
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Video of the Week XI: Architecture & energy 1
Amid all of the hooha surrounding our Supreme Court – symbols of power, propaganda, and hair loss – we should take time out to step back and really consider the dome issue in a more holistic way. You see, as this remarkable little film sets out, there really are supernatural consequences of building domes, which have no doubt been…
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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…
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Video of the Week VII: The Architects Sketch
The Architect Sketch (by John Cleese and Graham Chapman) If some of you found that last week’s video resonated all to familiarly, then try this one on for size. It is a pretty famous Monty Python sketch, so there is a good chance that you’ll have seen it before, but it is definitely worth another…
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Video of the Week VI: smack the pony – architects
Smack the Pony, according to Wikipedia, was a British sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003 on Channel 4 (some of you out there might have seen them?). Weirdly, its title was intended to sound like a euphemism for female masturbation – something I won’t tag this post with in case it gets too popular amongst a demographic that we are…
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Video of the Week IV: Studio Slasher – Death by Architecture
More student studio madness – this time created by 5th year honours students in Architecture (WITS University) as a response to last week’s video… I hope this doesn’t bring back too many memories… m-d
