Erected in Novi Belgrade in 1969, the Hotel Jugoslavija was a mythical place. It was both a symbol and a witness to the different moments that shaped former Yugoslavia : From Tito to Milosevic ; from Socialism to Nationalism ; from NATO’s bombings to corrupted economic liberalism. Today, it is st...

A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge, an impossible deadline, two warring political titans, and a blind competition. What could go wrong? The film is set in 1982 France when the new socialist President Mitterrand opens a blind competition to build an opera at the si...

The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an epoch-defining structure by the architect Mies van der Rohe. It was opened in 1968, shortly after his death. Nearly 50 years later, the director Ina Weisse sets out to examine the period during which this unique edifice was constructed. She is the daughter...

The magnificent Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, one of the world’s preeminent museums, home to Rembrandt - Vermeer, is renovated.
Battles between the museum’s director, curators,politicians, designers are filmed over 10 years.
4 part series and feature with a glorious ending.

Original title: Het Nieuw...

"...Creativity is a miracle that exists only when you know how to share it. Our studio is a special place, where this miracle happens every day."
From a letter from Renzo Piano, 14 September 2017

We had access, for several months, to one of the most important architectural firms in the world. Wh...

An award-winning documentary about Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.

In 1961, three young, visionary architects...

This fascinating documentary deals with an ambitious and special renovation project in Bois-le-Prêtre, an apartment tower in Paris. The building previously nicknamed as “Alcatraz” was ready for demolition, but instead the city authorities decided to refurbish it, apartment by apartment. Due to th...

Both a capitalist invention and a Soviet symbol, the concrete slab buildings was a shared reality. People from different countries who live in these buildings tell their stories as they relate to industrial housing in the time of clashing ideologies between East and West. The film puts forward a ...

Seit mehr als 20 Jahren wird über den Alexanderplatz gestritten. 1993 wurde das größte Bauvorhaben der Nachwendejahre verabschiedet. Umringt von 13 Türmen, sollte das ehemalige Zentrum Ost zur neuen Stadt-Krone der wiedervereinigten Stadt werden. Dazu ist es bisher nicht gekommen. Doch den Invest...

“What Shall We Do With These Buildings?” is a documentary-dance film which explores the legacy of Soviet architecture in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Moving fluidly between interview and dance, the film playfully investigates the dynamic impact that these buildings have on the people who live with them. Wha...

Vor beinahe hundert Jahren wurde eine radikale künstlerische Utopie in die beschauliche Stadt Weimar hineingeboren: Das Bauhaus. Ihre Auswirkungen prägen unsere Lebenswelt bis heute.
Von Beginn an fragten die Architekten und Künstler des Bauhaus, darunter Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky oder Pa...

8 architects, 8 houses, 8 stories, 8 paradigms of contemporary living.
Presented at Salone del Mobile, part of Milan Design Week 2014, Where Architects Live gives an intriguing insight into the daily lives of some of the world’s leading designers: Shigeru Ban, Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, M...

The thread and texture between the sea and the hills, between city and metropolis, between inside and outside; sign and function, material and design, between the landscape and the city to come. Softness is an interweaving of stories and threads. The origin is i-Mesh: a vision, a material and a t...