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Ai Weiwei’s Music Video, Recreating His Detention

2013-05-22T11:48:00-04:00

Now Mr. Ai is answering the guards’ request in a different key. He is presenting them, and the world, with his first heavy-metal music video, one with detailed re-creations of scenes from his 81 days of detention. He also portrays fantasies he imagines flitting through the guards’ minds. Mr. Ai posted the video on a Web site, aiweiwei.com, on Wednesday morning, Beijing time.

Henning Larsen Architects Releases New European Spallation Source (ESS) Video

2013-04-17T20:15:00-04:00

Earlier this year in February, we reported that the architectual team Henning Larsen Architects + COBE + SLA had won the design competition for the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden—soon to become the world’s largest and most advanced facility for neutron-based research. The architects have now released a video which provides insight on the ESS project, building, and surroundings.

The competition team also includes the engineering partners Buro Happold, NNE Pharmaplan, and Transsolar.

Previously: Henning Larsen Architects, COBE and SLA to Design European Spallation Source (ESS)

Bartlett blogger, Chris Hildrey, shares his recent travels with a video

2013-03-04T11:33:00-05:00

I went travelling through Japan, China, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia with my girlfriend. Since getting back to the UK I've condensed some of the video footage from that time into a 5 and a half minute video.

Steven Holl Architects presents two short films on the Sliced Porosity Block

2013-02-20T17:51:00-05:00

Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Spirit of Space has created two short films on the Sliced Porosity Block - CapitaLand Raffles City, completed in November 2012 in Chengdu, China.

Filmed in November 2012, A Conversation with Steven Holl presents Steven Holl on site as he explains the design concept. The film Sliced Porosity Block explores the project in its urban context and as a public space in the city of Chengdu.

Still from "Sliced Porosity Block"

In the center of Chengdu, at the intersection of the first Ring Road and Ren Ming Nam Road, the Sliced Porosity Block forms large public plazas with a hybrid of different functions. Creating a metropolitan public space instead of object-icon skyscrapers, this three million sq ft. project takes its shape from the distribution of natural light. The required minimum sunlight exposures to the surrounding urban fabric prescribe geometric angles that slice the exoskeletal concrete frame of the structure. The building str...

The ABC of Architects ~ this is so great!

2013-01-08T14:37:00-05:00

This work is an alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building. A lot of them have been left out with grief because we only need one for each letter and we done an effort to have differents nationalities.

WAI Think Tank Video "Généalogie d'un collage"

2012-12-02T13:07:00-05:00

WAI Architecture Think Tank has released the video narrative “Généalogie d'un collage”. The video displays the creation of the collage ‘Cities of the Avant-Garde’ as well as one of the poems that were developed with the iconic image.

Music:
Asap Rocky “Peso” (2011)
Jan Garbarek & Agnes Buen Garnas “Rosensfole” (1988)
www.wai-architecture.com
www.waithinktank.com

Residencia - architecture by Auer + Weber;video by Tramnesia

2012-07-11T16:48:00-04:00

The Residencia is a hotel for staff and guests at the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. Located in an extremely remote and desolate section of the Atacama desert, the Residencia was designed by the German architecture firm Auer + Weber as a sanctuary in an environment that has never supported life. The L-shaped building was dug into the ground as if to conceal its presence, presenting profoundly different faces depending on the approach.

LA Light

2012-04-25T16:58:00-04:00

Stunning time-lapse video of Los Angeles at night that recently made it on the 2012 Vimeo Awards shortlist in the category 'Lyrical'.

Here some more info from Colin Rich, maker of LA Light:

I sought out to capture the electric radiance of Los Angeles at night and paint a portrait of my city.

It took me 6 months of on and off shooting to finish this project.

Shooting time lapses is a labor of love and a study in patience.

This video is dedicated to the memory of my Grandmother. She spent most of her life bettering the lives of others and was exemplary of what humanity can be in its purest form.

Cinematography, direction, and editing by Colin Rich
Production Company: Pacific Star
Produced by William Ahmanson

Marc Simmons, "Process Performance"

2012-04-06T18:34:00-04:00

With the firm Front, in which he is a Partner, Marc Simmons has collaborated on projects with OMA, Asymptote Architecture, ARO, Beyer Blinder Belle, Gehry Partners, Herzog & De Meuron, Kengo Kuma, KPF, Mack Scogin Merril Elam Architects, Renzo Piano, Sejima + Nishizawa Associates, Steven Holl Architects, Toshiko Mori, and many other architects. His lecture will explore themes in his recent work, including the speculative and experimental potential of the facade specialist.

Via Lian's GSD blog

Results of the 2011 SMIBE Short Film Competition “Building Revolution”

2012-04-06T17:58:00-04:00

Two top entries have been announced in the 2011 edition of the annual short film competition hosted by SMIBE, The Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment. Under the theme "Building Revolution," the contest had invited moving image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our communities about social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing.

Brooklyn Digital Foundry OPTIMIZED

2012-03-19T07:11:00-04:00

We've optimized the studio!

Check out the new demo reel AND - introducing our sister company: Brooklyn United!

Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island

2012-02-24T17:44:00-05:00

Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island explores the work of the region’s best postwar architects and designers, including Albert Frey, Wallace Harrison, Herbert Beckhard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horace Gifford, Edward Durrell Stone, Marcel Breuer, Andrew Geller, Philip Johnson, Charles Gwathmey, Barbara and Julian Neski, and others. The film features interviews with architects and historians, as well as friends, families and clients of these influential designers.

Capturing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second

2011-12-14T11:28:53-05:00

MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects.

Architecture and the Unspeakable

2011-12-12T14:50:04-05:00

A video in three parts presenting three speculative design proposals, each probing a pathological aspect of the built environment.

New Videos by Spirit of Space

2011-11-21T19:51:30-05:00

Spirit of Space has shared with us two videos they have recently created. The first was created for a studio at Harvard GSD, the second for Gensler Architects + Virgin America.

WATERLINE CHICAGO
The cadence of morning rush hour reflects the rhythm of the Chicago River, but how often do we allow the river to reflect a wandering glance from us? This "glance" aims to bring to light the potential of Chicago's socially under utilized, aqueous artery.

'Waterline' was commissioned by Phil Enquist (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) in junction with the eponymous studio at the Harvard GSD for Fall 2011. Students will explore the realities of three sites along the South branch of the river and think of ways to make it more relevant to the public.

SFO TERMINAL 2
Gensler¹s sustainable design solution for San Francisco International Airport¹s Terminal 2 presents a fresh overhaul in airport design by focusing on what is most important: people. And while the routine of traveling may be comple...

Asics Makes NYC Commute Faster for 60 Feet

2011-11-16T12:44:57-05:00

Hard proof that we are living in the future: To promote the recent New York City marathon, Asics hooked up a 60-foot video wall in Manhattan's Columbus Circle subway station, inviting commuters to race against life-sized footage of Olympic marathon runner Ryan Hall. Hall zips by at his average pace while you see if you can match it.

The New World Trade Center

2011-09-20T14:45:49-04:00

Piranha was commissioned by Silverstein Properties to create a short film depicting the completion of The New World Trade Center site. Piranha wrote, produced, art directed, filmed, and finished all vfx for this inspiring piece marking the 10th year anniversary of 9/11.

Piranha has shared with us a short film that they delivered on September 6th to Silverstein Properties that depicts the renaissance of downtown New York. It was presented at Tower 7 at a press event, in presence of Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Produced by Piranha NYC
Directed by Gaspard Giroud

From the School Blogs: Video Tour of the New Norris House

2011-08-29T13:47:54-04:00

Samuel has posted a video of a cribs-like tour of the New Norris House, previously documented on his blog.

Alex Steffen @ TED Talks

2011-08-11T21:46:16-04:00

What we are finding is that what we want is access to things...Our cities I would put to you are stockpiles of surplus capacities...What we probably will find is that turning these products into services that we have access to when we want them is a far smarter way to go. In fact even space itself is turning into a service.

How can cities help save the future? In this TED talk Alex Steffen discusses why he thinks if we view climate change as a problem of "clean energy generation" we are setting ourselves up for a problem. He suggests the future lie in fact in "the shareable future of cities". He then highlights some cool neighborhood-based green projects that expand our access to things we want and need -- while reducing the time we spend in cars.

From the School Blogs: JDS Architects: an Introduction

2011-07-07T14:10:00-04:00

A short back story. Towards the end of the school year, Julien De Smedt came to UIC to lecture. I was fortunate enough to be able to interview him for a forthcoming Fresh Meat article. Through the conversation, talk of short films came up. This led on to another conversation and then to something else (i don't remember all the details I'll have to review the recording). Long story short, I was asked to come to Copenhagen to work on a small Project for JDS.

School blogger, Matthew, from the University of Illinois Chicago, shares with us the amazing video work he did for JDS Architects, which was recently unveiled with their new website the other day. Click through for some backstory, and to watch the video.

OMA "Three in One" - Lecture at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam by Rem Koolhaas

2011-06-15T17:41:45-04:00

The lecture provides an overview of OMA’s recent thinking and will cover three interrelated topics: the growth of Preservation, and its blind spots; architecture and democracy; and the ongoing development of the office itself.

The lecture provides an overview of OMA’s recent thinking and will cover three interrelated topics.

O’ Mighty Green

2011-06-08T07:43:27-04:00

0. Introduction
Sustainability currently shares many qualities with God; supreme concept, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; creator and judge, protector, and (...) saviour of the universe and the humanity. And, like God, it has millions of believers. Since we humans are relatively simpleminded and suspicious and need evidence before belief can become conviction, Green has come to represent sustainability; has become its incarnation in the human world. But sustainability, like God, might not have a form, nor a colour…

1. Emancipation
In a desperate attempt to give shape to an all-encompassing ideology the Green proves to work as the quickest and easiest representation of sustainability. The Green is the only symbol able to keep pace with today’s lack of patience and hunger for images; a Lady Gaga-Sustainability: effective, noticeable, creative, sensationalist. In a persistent effort to become the allegory of Sustainability, Green has been emancipated as its caricature.

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Plan Of The City - Skyscrapers on Mars

2011-05-31T18:40:10-04:00

Check out this new animated film, Plan Of The City, conceived and directed by Joshua Frankel, featuring flying skyscrapers from New York and Shanghai, remixed cities, the Martian landscape and a chamber ensemble. The film is, in part, a love letter to architecture, urban planing, and impossible proposals for each. It is also an experiment in extending the concept of collage through live action video and animation.

YouTube Theater, by Aaron Jones

2011-05-07T11:44:54-04:00

Aaron Jones, a M.Arch student at Cranbrook Academy of Art, sent us news of his YouTube Theater installation. Very cool.

This project is based on the assumption that the internet (WiFi) can potentially deliver entertainment and information into any place, even a neighborhood that may be overlooked or discounted. With the injection of this media comes the anticipation of event based scenarios, and in turn architecture.

This initial installation (Cranbrook Academy of Art) exploits the existing condition of campus WiFi and its ability to be accessed through current smartphone technology. The user docks their hand-held device into the theater which in turn allows one to both surf online media, and have it projected through an integration of basic a/v equipment. Be it Jennifer Black, Danny Brown, or The White Stripes the event runs off of your personal phone / whims.

The final destination and overall programmatic driver, a Detroit garage, exploits at least two exist...

Bompas and Parr: Return of the Jelly Knights

2011-05-06T20:06:52-04:00

Taking the term to whole new levels, the British food and design consultancy duo Sam Bompas and Harry Parr has breathed new, refreshingly artificial, and entertaining life into what is known as "food experience." [...] Using cutting-edge technology, they even beat the gingerbread house as the known climax of architecture and food symbiosis and came up with what is known as "Alcoholic Architecture."

Architecture and the Unspeakable

2011-04-17T19:30:29-04:00

We just released a video featuring the first in a series of three design proposals that examine the potential in building pathology. Design / art direction by us, video direction and production by www.brooklynfoundry.com. For your consideration... watch here.