- Athens- Hellinikon International Airport Employed before by the Luftwaffe and then by the US army, it became with Aristotele Onassis, owner of the Olympic Airways, the first airport in Greece moving 11 millions of passengers a year. Luxury cabin service, porcelain and fine crystal glasses, stylish uniforms designed by Coco Chanel (1966-1968) and Pierre Cardin (1969-1971) leaving an indelible mark on […]
- The Barbican In London for the opening of the Power and Architecture season at Calvert 22, we grant ourselves the time to pay tribute to one of the most iconic brutalist realisations of last century. The Barbican is the noblest example of the periphery at the center typology. In the very heart of the City of London, a residential unit hosting more […]
- Berlin Mehringplatz Few places in Berlin are more emblematic than Mehringplatz of the concept of “periphery at the center”. Situated in a very central location of the city, only few hundred meters from the foundational nucleus of the city in the Fischerinsel, it is at the crossroads of two main axes of the city, the north- south […]
- Berlin, dream of modernity No city as Berlin, (except Paris, obviously) can be adopted as an epitome of modernity. From here Georg Simmel generated its observations on the mental life of the metropolis, defining the inherently modern figure of the overstimulated man, and the notion of blasè. From here Walter Benjamin began its drift into the modern, plastered of […]
- Nova Gorica A walk in Nova Gorica, a new modernist city built after an arbitrary border was traced to divide the territories assigned to Yugoslavia and Italy after WWII. Nova Gorica, which developed in the area previously occupied by the old cemetery of Gorizia, was established in 1948, a few months after the definition of the new […]
- “Licht, Luft und Sonne”
- Berlin Mitte
- 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 […]
- 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
- 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