Archinect - News 2013-05-24T08:48:28-04:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/66909344/mvrdv-builds-porous-city-exhibition-with-legos-in-cannes MVRDV Builds “Porous City” Exhibition with LEGOs in Cannes Alexander Walter 2013-02-04T15:24:00-05:00 >2013-02-12T16:40:07-05:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/97/972zcv53pmhmbi8r.jpg" width="514" height="386" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>If you happen to be in the South of France this March, make sure to attend MIPIM&rsquo;s first edition of the Innovation Forum in Cannes, March 12-15th, where MVRDV and Delft-based innitiative The Why Factory (T?F) present the exhibition, Porous City &ndash; Open the Tower. The event is part of their ongoing research on the design of skyscrapers and the potential of porosity as a European approach to urban density.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> http://archinect.com/news/article/49499373/oma-designs-a-pyramid-for-kanye-west OMA Designs a Pyramid for Kanye West Archinect 2012-05-28T20:03:00-04:00 >2012-05-29T11:24:08-04:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/db/db53b99e5dbb5f610de95553b3bd4794.jpg" width="514" height="343" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>An OMA-designed temporary pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival was inaugurated today with a screening of Kanye West's debut short film Cruel Summer. The pavilion, with a design led by Shohei Shigematsu, is a raised pyramid containing a seven-screen cinema invented by West's creative team, Donda.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> http://archinect.com/news/article/6668751/modern-architecture-not-always-photogenic Modern Architecture... not always photogenic Paul Petrunia 2011-05-17T12:32:21-04:00 >2011-05-17T12:33:33-04:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/rz/rzbuu7zbygefw4zp.jpg" width="512" height="341" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>There is beautiful architecture but it was bombed down by the allies in the war. This is a nice city but I cannot shoot in modern architecture, my camera don't like it. My camera wants to kill your mama.</p></em><br /><br /><p> "Badyboy filmaker" Aki Kaurismaki in Cannes, discussing his latest film "Le Havre".</p>