2024-11-24T07:49:00-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/99422999/the-competition-a-documentary-that-exposes-how-starchitects-really-work Archinect 2014-05-08T15:04:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9i/9ibu39j4z8akij8d.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The Competition, which has its UK premiere at the Barbican tonight, follows the trials and tribulations of five stellar practices competing in a doomed bid to build a new national museum for Andorra, back in 2009. As the global financial crisis hit rock-bottom, no job was too small for architects whose dreams of dotting Middle Eastern deserts with their snazzy signatures had been revealed as a hopeless mirage.</p></em><br /><br /><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/1r/1r75jooc8lmecil5.jpg"></p>