Architecture in the cinema

[vOid]

I finally got myself a copy of Koolhaas Houselife.
It has a rather disturbing direction - most of the time the camera rotates and shakes, following Guadalupe, the housekeeper, as she moves frantically from one space to the other, and the center of the picture screen is filled by the image of her dotted shirt, you almost start to feel motion sickness and you wish the camera would move away from her every now and then so you could see a bit more of the house.
Still, it's a very interesting reading of an architectural icon, one you get through the eyes of a simple person whose mission is to take care of the house, having to deal with all kinds of problems it poses while doing so. And they aren't few...

[vOid]

Jean Luc Godard's Le Mépris from 1963 features Adalberto Libera's Villa Malaparte, in Capri.
Youtube

[Lewis Wadsworth]

Not quite cinema, but still...architecture in music video? ...specifically, in the Beastie Boy's "Off the Grid", near the end when the music goes from jazz-influenced to retro-future-Rat-Pack-New-Wave-berserk.

I feel I should know where and what the site is (it's definitely my sort of late Modernist off-target megaproject, even outside of post-Punk/post-Hiphop atavistic music videos), but I don't.

I keep thinking, "Brazil...." Anyone know for sure what, where, who, and why?

[ThiagoBeck]

YEP you got it.... It's the memorial for those who died on WW2... There is a tomb on the Underground. It's an amazing project by Marcos Konder e Helio Ribas Marinho. That huge structure has an fire burning at all times. more Images HERE
It's on Aterro do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro Brazil!

[Lewis Wadsworth]

Thanks! What a difference it makes to see the monument in clear, color photography. I wouldn't have guessed from the video that it was on such a beautiful location at the water's edge.

...though, I also like how the Beasties' video projects it as (I think) some sort of visual metaphor for inhuman scale and unknown (and ultimately un-know-able) significance.

[ThiagoBeck]

The underground croft is a very specially designed space.
you go down by a very generous stair, for the light into th sobriaty (sp) of the croft. the natural lights gets in by a water feature. It's a very special feeling. I'll try to find some section cuts and other drawings.

[Lewis Wadsworth]

Thanks again. Now that you've told me where and what it is, I've found that it is actually available (in a very simple form) in Google Earth.

1952...what an interesting comparison this makes to the much later, much more...conservative, shall we say...Washington DC WWII monument!

[Henrique.arq]

This monument came in a very special moment for brazilian Architecture, cause modernism moviment here were very strong, specialy in the 50s, when we made Brazilia.

All Aterro do Flamengo is modern, with Gardens projected by Burle Marx and our Modern Art Museum by Afonso Reidy.

In this pics you can see the spacial relation between Burle Marx Gardens, Reidy's Museum and Konder's Memorial:

[Lewis Wadsworth]

Thanks for info, Henrique. I wasn't aware that the museum was so close to the monument. The whole ensemble of modernism is probably worth a new thread outside of this "cinema in architecture" one. Perhaps you or ThiagoBeck (or both of you) should start one!

[vOid]

Just in case you haven't noticed, there's already a thread by Primo about Reidy's Modern Art Museum here

[Henrique.arq]

I've got some news from Movies!
First, look at this trailer!

recognized the place where they were shoting with UZIs?
Yeahh NY Guggenheim!

Directed by Tom Tywker (Run,Lola,Run; The Perfume), this movie will be great!

The interesting thing is about their promotional material, using a lot of Guggenheim takes and designs ideas:

[vOid]

I finally saw the trailer of the new 007 movie yesterday and I noticed the ESO Hotel in the Atacama desert, Chile, by Auer + Weber.

[sigue2000]

The interesting thing is about their promotional material, using a lot of Guggenheim takes and designs ideas:

And the Phaeno Science Center by Zaha Hadid.

[sigue2000]

I finally saw the trailer of the new 007 movie yesterday and I noticed the ESO Hotel in the Atacama desert, Chile, by Auer + Weber.

What are these two buildings?

[Jimmern]

The International looks like the new sure hit among architects. I want to see it.

[vOid]

What are these two buildings?

I have no idea. They could be in Austria (part of the action takes place there).

[Henrique.arq]

Another new movie with architecture relation:

History about problematic violinist who wanna play in Walt Disney Concert Hall, with Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx.

Trailer here

[digdoi]

What are these two buildings?

The first one is the Barbican Centre in London.

And it's in the World's Ugliest Buildings List by CNN Europe.

[sigue2000]

The first one is the Barbican Centre in London.

Yup. That's it.

[bemak]

I finally saw the trailer of the new 007 movie yesterday and I noticed the ESO Hotel in the Atacama desert, Chile, by Auer + Weber.

ya just saw that now myself, you beat me too it.

looks well!