Baumschlager Eberle Architekten   Poland   A scheme drawn up by the practice of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten has been placed first in the competition to build a film industry hub in the Polish city of Toruń. Among the 41 other contestants was Kengo Kuma, who capped the second prize. The pr

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) of the United States, which year after year extols Hollywood movies with its Oscar awards, inaugurates its much awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on 30 September. The institution will in

Antonio Virga Architecte   France   La oficina de París liderada por Antonio Virga ha sido la encargada de construir este cine con siete salas y de remodelar los espacios circundantes en la ciudad francesa de Cahors, en la región de Occitania. Integrado en un proyecto de desarrollo del

Jaume Blancafort Elisabet Capdeferro Yasia Jiménez   Spain   Esta ‘casa que no lo es’ amplía otra construida quince años atrás por Manuel Martín Madrid. El arquitecto dotó de intimidad a la vivienda situándola en la parte más elevada del solar. Como fachada a la calle, un muro de contención vegetal convertido

The documentary Rafael Moneo Revisits His Work premieres on television this Sunday 29 September at 21:30, in the program Imprescindibles on RTVE Channel 2. The prolific work of Rafael Moneo (Tudela, 1937) and his unique way of tackling the creative p

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature-length film, The Room Next Door premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival, where it received a 17-minute ovation. Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, it tells the story of tw

The Guardian   Nadia Khomami   How do you properly do justice to the life story of a Hungarian-born Jew who survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the US, where he toiled in poverty and indignity in pursuit of the American dream? According to the director of the highly anticipate

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid in March has staged the malaise of memory. The city’s Teatro Real has presented The Passenger, an opera whose characters travel on a ship that carries the remembrance of the horror of the Holocaust; the Royal Academy has inaugurated an exhibit

The Sense of Tuning is a portrait of Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai, captured in the vitality of the movement and the moment. The latest feature film of Bêka & Lemoine comes with ‘Breath of an Architect’, an exhibition on the Indian currently on view at

Nippon.com   Hashino Yukinori   Since 2020, the Tokyo Toilet Project has drawn attention with its designer restrooms in Shibuya created by such world-renowned figures as Ban Shigeru, Kuma Kengo, and Andō Tadao. In May, the buzz spread abroad with acclaimed German director Wim Wende

Wrapping a Room, directed by architect Ana Herreros, has been awarded with an honorable mention for Emerging Director at the Venice Architecture Film Festival. Produced during ‘The Berlage Theory Master Class’ directed by Bêka and Lemoine, the film W

Artist-filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine take us to Bangkok on a one day hectic journey through the chaotic concrete jungle of the South-Asian megacity. Led by the moving personal story of Boonserm Premthada, one of today's most important Thai architects

Deutsche Welle   The US film director's documentary, which premiered at the recently concluded Venice Film Festival, advocates nuclear energy as the solution to end the climate crisis. "Nuclear" was one of the many environment-related films featured at the 79th Venic

Le Monde   Jacques Mandelbaum   From the 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard was among those who pushed cinema's aesthetic and narrative limits while embodying the New Wave. The French-Swiss filmmaker died on September 13. Born on December 3, 1930 in Paris, the most illustrious of Franco-Swiss

Notre-Dame on fire offers a blow-by-blow recreation of the gripping events that took place on April 15, 2019, when the cathedral suffered the biggest blaze in its history. The film retraces how heroic men and women put their lives on the line to acco

The New Yorker   Erin Overbey   Wes Anderson based the fictional magazine in his latest film on a certain real-life periodical. The New Yorker’s archive editor considers the resemblance. One day in May of 2003, I answered the phone in The New Yorker’s archive and received a very un

The Transfer Architecture Video Award is an independent award, launched in 2019, to recognise the most creative and innovative short films in the field of architecture, city or landscape worldwide. The 2019 edition of the Award attracted the particip

Consumed is a cinematic journey through the landscapes, mines, factories, and shipyards of Chinese production. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, a single worker narrates his story to the rhythm of industrial machinery. The film reve

Jorge Gorostiza   All is dark until a metal door opens. Up close are domestic objects, behind is the woman who has opened the door, and in the background we see a snow-covered field. In the second shot she’s putting boxes in a van and smelling men’s clothing, crying.

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   He built wild, magical buildings and furniture that is still thrilling today. But a new film suggests the celebrated Finn was also a domineering philanderer deeply indebted to his talented wives. Wonky lumps of misshapen, scorched bricks burst from a

Directed by Richard Linklater and based on the novel of the same time title by Maria Semple, the film tells the story of Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett), an architect who gave up her career and travels to Antarctica, location of the Halley VI researc

IAE   The Basque Country Architecture Institute will host Homo Urbanus, an experience with which citizens can immerse themselves in ten cities such as Bogota, Seoul, Venice, St. Petersburg or Doha, without leaving Donostia-San Sebastian. The projected medi

Jorge Gorostiza   An old Alfa Romeo Giulia makes its way through Tokyo under the rain. The driver is Ryue Nishizawa, and behind sits Louise Lemoine. In the passenger seat rides the viewer, who sees and hears all that happens from morning til night on 25 April 2019, th

The Guardian   Leslie Felperin   This stylish documentary explores the work of the photographer whose images of mid-century west coast architecture captured an aspirational moment.  This absorbing documentary from 2008 focuses on Julius Shulman (1910-2009), a photographer best known

youtube.com   Tokyo Ride is a new step of Bêka & Lemoine’s immersion within Tokyo’s busy daily life. Revisiting the genre of the road movie in a very diaristic and personal way, the film takes us on board of Ryue Nishizawa’s vintage Alfa Romeo (Giulia) fo

Jorge Gorostiza   In 1925 the architect and film set designer Robert Mallet Stevens wrote that in cinema, “architecture acts,” is one further actor. Since then, numerous buildings have appeared on screen whose roles in the plots are as important as that of any member

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The films and the photographers of the last half-century convey an often menacing image of the contemporary city and the new urban territories.