Jacques Tati and Architecture
A ‘Tati trip’ is what curators Macha Makeïeff and Stéphane Goudet call the major retrospective, currently hosted by the Cinémathèque Française this summer. Over 650sq m of design, fashion, film extracts, soundtracks, costumes, accessories and sketchbooks fill the space and tell the story of this unique artist and ‘Jacques of all trades’ who began [...]
Architects on Telly: New Town, BBC 4
Last Saturday night BBC4 broadcast a new comedy drama set in the New Town area of Edinburgh. Written by Annie Griffin, who was previously behind the excellent Book Group series on Channel 4, New Town is a semi-surreal murder mystery with a cast of social climbing characters who live in the most exclusive (and expensive) [...]
Interview: Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica and Objectified
When Helvetica, a documentary about the ubiquitous and famously functional typeface, was released in 2007, it gained more mainstream success than anyone expected. While it was never going to challenge Spiderman III for box office receipts, the film has been shown at film festivals around the world, won rave reviews – particularly from graphic designers [...]
Time out of Scale
The latest project by Ben Van Berkel of Dutch architect UNStudio is either proof that architects and designers can find ways to weather the financial storm, or a last hoorah from a more luxurious time. Commissioned by phone manufacturer Motorola, the Time Out of Scale installation at St Martin’s Lane Hotel at the beginning of [...]
How To Look Like £800 Million
Is The £800 Million Station the best documentary about architecture ever made? Its certainly the best since the last Anthony Wonke documentary, The Tower was aired. The two films focus on very different projects, the former of course is the refurbishment of St. Pancras, which has just opened and the other a high-rise in Deptford [...]
