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Was Für ein schönes schloss…
Oh che bel castello Ma che bel castello, marcondirindirondello, ma che bel castello, marcondirondironda’ Il mio è ancor più bello, marcondirondirondello, il mio è ancor più bello, marcondirondironda’ Noi lo bruceremo, marcondirindirondello, noi lo bruceremo, marcondirondironda’ Noi lo rifaremo, marcondirindirondello, noi lo rifaremo, marcondirondironda’ The old Italian nursery rhyme sings “what a beautiful castle – mine […]
2015-01-06
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Berlin Mitte
2014-12-13
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The bunker
This sequence was shot in an abandoned military bunker in Cuba. It was presented to us as destined to one of the infamous nuclear missiles of the 1962 crisis, although we have no elements to confirm this hypothesis. It was nevertheless a sinister and fascinating place, huge enough to contain a big launching pad. The […]
2014-12-11
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Nothing is left
Nothing is left. We imbued this long take traveling towards Alexanderplatz with the dark mood of Circuit Parallele’s track. It is a study for the in progress film project, an urban symphony following three characters meandering through the psychologic landscape of a relentlessly transforming Berlin… music__nothing is left_circuit parallele_spine 02
2014-12-08
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Jardín de los afectos
The sculture garden made of recycled scrap – as almost everything else in Cuba – in the Micro X (tenth district) of Alamar, La Habana del Este, is the work of the artist Hector Gallo. Photographed in 2006 by ogino:knauss
2014-11-29
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Edificio GIRÓN
This 17 floors brutalist complex was the first coup de foudre in La Habana. Built in 1967 in the Vedado neighbourhood, the building faces the sea on the Malecon boulevard. It was designed in 1967 by Antonio Quintana and Alberto Rodríguez. It was revolutionary from a construction point of view since it was the first building to use […]
2014-11-27
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Renaming Hellersdorf
Recently we did a survey in the area of Hellersdorf along the last stations of the S-Bahn line 5. One of the most recent big development areas of former East Berlin, one of the last still adopting the prefabricated, high rise building, typical dormitory city approach. A neighbourhood already under observation for the RCP project. This time […]
2014-10-17
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
One of the most iconic architectural projects of modernity, the Pruitt-Igoe complex in st.Louis. The images of its demolition in 1973 have become the symbol of the passage to the post modern era, according to a famous Charles Jenks’ assertion. We saw the excellent film The Pruitt-Igoe Myth at the Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival. The […]
2014-06-07
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Stare Sajmište
The urban periphery is a field of conquest and investment. It is the frontier of the advancing city, the front of the urban growth machine. Essential modern means to foster urban development are exhibitions, temporary events, the use of spectacular processes as ice-breaking operations towards new investment and settlement. The invention of modernism is indissolubly […]
2014-04-10
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Modernism in-between
(…) then, Yugoslav culture was not entirely open either functioning inside a systemic “membrane” that filtered the exchange with the outside world. Similarly, Yugoslavia’s position between the “three worlds” of the Cold War was not symmetric either. The chief reference points of exchange shifted at first from East to West and then only slightly back […]
2014-03-09