Exclusive: Smithsonian Channel has landed itself a top gun.
Jay Ellis, who plays Lieutenant Reuben Fitch in the Tom Cruise hit Top Gun: Maverick, has signed on to host the second season of the Paramount Global-owned network’s unscripted series How Did They Build That?
The ten-part series explores some of the most incredible feats of engineering from around the world. It will be fronted by Ellis, who also starred in HBO’s Insecure.
The move marks a step up for the docuseries, which did not have a host in its first season.
Season two will continue to cover architectural wonders from all over the world but will have an emphasis on American stories and deconstruct some of the United States’ most amazing structures, including Hearst Tower, Little Island, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Denver Art Museum, Evergreen Point 520 Floating Bridge
International stories include La Tete...
Jay Ellis, who plays Lieutenant Reuben Fitch in the Tom Cruise hit Top Gun: Maverick, has signed on to host the second season of the Paramount Global-owned network’s unscripted series How Did They Build That?
The ten-part series explores some of the most incredible feats of engineering from around the world. It will be fronted by Ellis, who also starred in HBO’s Insecure.
The move marks a step up for the docuseries, which did not have a host in its first season.
Season two will continue to cover architectural wonders from all over the world but will have an emphasis on American stories and deconstruct some of the United States’ most amazing structures, including Hearst Tower, Little Island, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Denver Art Museum, Evergreen Point 520 Floating Bridge
International stories include La Tete...
- 6/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Australian architect, Harry Seidler (photo credit: David Moore).
Filming has commenced on Beyond Style: Seidler, a documentary film about architect Harry Seidler, directed by Daryl Dellora for ABC TV.
The Film Art Media doco, produced by Charlotte Seymour and Sue Maslin, Beyond Style: Seidler (55 mins) is the first documentary retrospective of Seidler.s architectural legacy and is an intimate portrait of his extraordinary life and internationally recognised work.
Filming locations will include Melbourne, Sydney, Paris, London and Vienna and featured interviewees include celebrated architects Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers, Glenn Murcutt as well as Jorn Utzon, Penelope Seidler and others..
This year marks ten years since the death of Harry Seidler and this .documentary aims to deliver a retrospective of Seidler.s architectural vision.
Seidler is acclaimed as one of the greatest modernist architects..
He won every architectural major prize in Australia, is represented in every major city, and...
Filming has commenced on Beyond Style: Seidler, a documentary film about architect Harry Seidler, directed by Daryl Dellora for ABC TV.
The Film Art Media doco, produced by Charlotte Seymour and Sue Maslin, Beyond Style: Seidler (55 mins) is the first documentary retrospective of Seidler.s architectural legacy and is an intimate portrait of his extraordinary life and internationally recognised work.
Filming locations will include Melbourne, Sydney, Paris, London and Vienna and featured interviewees include celebrated architects Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers, Glenn Murcutt as well as Jorn Utzon, Penelope Seidler and others..
This year marks ten years since the death of Harry Seidler and this .documentary aims to deliver a retrospective of Seidler.s architectural vision.
Seidler is acclaimed as one of the greatest modernist architects..
He won every architectural major prize in Australia, is represented in every major city, and...
- 3/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Buena Vista Social Club producer Rosa Bosch is in Cannes with a slate of four new feature documentaries, all of which are to be made in Cuba as the country begins to open itself up to international production.
The first one to shoot will be Havana Autos And Architecture, based on the book by celebrated British architect Norman Foster and journalist Mauricio Vicent.
The film is being made through Bosch’s company Cuban Star, and Ivorypress, the company run by Elena Ochoa Foster.
“The project comes out of a visit by Norman Foster to Havana and his falling love with the whole place and making a very unique link between the architecture and the car,” said Bosch.
The film will be based around six stories of old-timers who keep their cars “going on forever and forever”. Through those stories, the film aims to paint a portrait of the country’s 50 years old political isolation and to...
The first one to shoot will be Havana Autos And Architecture, based on the book by celebrated British architect Norman Foster and journalist Mauricio Vicent.
The film is being made through Bosch’s company Cuban Star, and Ivorypress, the company run by Elena Ochoa Foster.
“The project comes out of a visit by Norman Foster to Havana and his falling love with the whole place and making a very unique link between the architecture and the car,” said Bosch.
The film will be based around six stories of old-timers who keep their cars “going on forever and forever”. Through those stories, the film aims to paint a portrait of the country’s 50 years old political isolation and to...
- 5/16/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
CEO Brian Roberts must really like real estate. He was intimately involved with the design and construction plans for Philadelphia’s Comcast Center – the environmentally friendly, 58-story headquarters building that opened in 2008. Now the cable and entertainment giant says it will break ground next door this summer on a a 59-story Xanadu to be called the Comcast Innovation and Technology Center, with plans to open in late 2017. In addition to the corporate offices, the Center will have a 200-room Four Seasons hotel, and a restaurant on the top floor with 360-degree views of Philadelphia. It will cost $1.2B to build — and the state and city will help with economic development grants: $30M from Pennsylvania and $10M from Philadelphia. The company says the public cash will just be used for public infrastructure improvements. “No government dollars will be used to support the office and hotel components of this project.” Comcast will...
- 1/15/2014
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Financial Editor
- Deadline TV
Comcast has unveiled a $1.2 billion proposal for a new 59-story skyscraper to house its corporate headquarters in Philadelphia. Construction on the 1,121 ft building, designed by Lord Norman Foster of Foster + Partners, is expected to begin this Summer with a late 2017 completion date. "This is yet another historic moment for Comcast," said Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts in a statement. "We continue to be proud to call Philadelphia our home, and are thrilled to build a world-class media, technology and innovation center right in the heart of the City, to bring NBC 10
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- 1/15/2014
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Theatrical hell-raisers and the art world's enfants terribles take centre stage in our roundup of the biggest risk-takers of 2014
Theatre
Oh! What a Lovely War
Theatre-maker Joan Littlewood was a visionary, an iconoclast and a subversive. Her 1963 "documentary collage" about the bitter ironies of the first world war was way ahead of its time, using popular period song and hard-hitting testimony. Lyn Gardner Theatre Royal Stratford East, London E15 (020-8534 0310), 1 February to 15 May.
Macbeth
Shakespeare's dark tale as you've never seen it before, taking place in a secret location from dawn to dusk. Party with Duncan, bed down in Macbeth's castle on the 27th floor of a tower block, glimpse the witches in an underground car park, and join the feast at which Banquo will be an uninvited guest. The spectres will be bloody – but the food will be vegetarian. LG Secret location, London, 4 April to 31 May.
Grit
This...
Theatre
Oh! What a Lovely War
Theatre-maker Joan Littlewood was a visionary, an iconoclast and a subversive. Her 1963 "documentary collage" about the bitter ironies of the first world war was way ahead of its time, using popular period song and hard-hitting testimony. Lyn Gardner Theatre Royal Stratford East, London E15 (020-8534 0310), 1 February to 15 May.
Macbeth
Shakespeare's dark tale as you've never seen it before, taking place in a secret location from dawn to dusk. Party with Duncan, bed down in Macbeth's castle on the 27th floor of a tower block, glimpse the witches in an underground car park, and join the feast at which Banquo will be an uninvited guest. The spectres will be bloody – but the food will be vegetarian. LG Secret location, London, 4 April to 31 May.
Grit
This...
- 1/1/2014
- by Lyn Gardner, Andrew Dickson, Jonathan Jones, Adrian Searle, Imogen Tilden, Andrew Clements, Tom Service, Mark Lawson, Tim Jonze, Brian Logan, Oliver Wainwright, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Henry Barnes, Judith Mackrell
- The Guardian - Film News
As the filmic fare at Ole Scheeren's floating cinema illustrates, mixing design and documentary can be a bad move
For some reason, Venice's Architecture Biennale and its film festival open at the same time this year. Since the theme of the Biennale is "common ground", you'd expect some overlap between the two disciplines. They can work extremely well together – after direct experience, cinema is often the next best way to appraise architecture. But looking at the crossover here, it's also clear the combination can be terrible. Despite their collective creative qualities, architects and film-makers are often susceptible to complete loss of perspective when they get together.
Take the Archipelago Cinema, designed by German architect Ole Scheeren. This is a delightful pop-up floating cinema, a sort of split-level raft with bleached decking and casual beanbag seating. Scheeren made his name as project architect on Oma's much-publicised China Central Television (CCTV) building in Beijing,...
For some reason, Venice's Architecture Biennale and its film festival open at the same time this year. Since the theme of the Biennale is "common ground", you'd expect some overlap between the two disciplines. They can work extremely well together – after direct experience, cinema is often the next best way to appraise architecture. But looking at the crossover here, it's also clear the combination can be terrible. Despite their collective creative qualities, architects and film-makers are often susceptible to complete loss of perspective when they get together.
Take the Archipelago Cinema, designed by German architect Ole Scheeren. This is a delightful pop-up floating cinema, a sort of split-level raft with bleached decking and casual beanbag seating. Scheeren made his name as project architect on Oma's much-publicised China Central Television (CCTV) building in Beijing,...
- 8/30/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
DVD Release Date: June 19, 2012
Price: DVD $27.95
Studio: First Run Features
Norman Foster's Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn in France.
The 2010 documentary film How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? chronicles the life and career of England’s Norman Foster, who rose from a humble working class background to become one of the world’s premiere modern architects.
Directed by Norberto López Amada & Carlos Carcas, the movie was filmed in some ten countries, homing on some of Foster’s most iconic works, including London’s Swiss Re Tower, New York’s Hearst Building, Berlin’s Reichstag, Beijing Airport’s International Terminal and the Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn in France.
Examining the work of an architect whose quest is to improve the quality of life through design, and his work, the film features insights from Foster himself, as well as artists and notables as Anthony Caro,...
Price: DVD $27.95
Studio: First Run Features
Norman Foster's Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn in France.
The 2010 documentary film How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? chronicles the life and career of England’s Norman Foster, who rose from a humble working class background to become one of the world’s premiere modern architects.
Directed by Norberto López Amada & Carlos Carcas, the movie was filmed in some ten countries, homing on some of Foster’s most iconic works, including London’s Swiss Re Tower, New York’s Hearst Building, Berlin’s Reichstag, Beijing Airport’s International Terminal and the Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn in France.
Examining the work of an architect whose quest is to improve the quality of life through design, and his work, the film features insights from Foster himself, as well as artists and notables as Anthony Caro,...
- 5/30/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Nine of the world's 10 tallest buildings are now in Asia – and Hollywood wants to jump off all of them
Aerial shots over Manhattan's forest of skyscrapers. Yellow cabs crawling like ants through the city grid. The hero stands on a ledge 20 floors up, provoking a street theatre of police cordons, firetrucks, news crews and onlookers. Meanwhile, in a top-floor office, a corporate villain admires an architectural model of another shiny skyscraper. Elsewhere, an acrobatic thief hangs precariously in an elevator shaft, dropping a spanner that goes clanging down innumerable storeys to the ground. The ominous ping of an approaching elevator spells danger. The hero and villain finally meet for a climactic rooftop showdown.
These scenes could be from a hundred Hollywood movies or more, but in fact they're from just one: Man on a Ledge, an enjoyably silly new thriller that at least sets out its stall in the title.
Aerial shots over Manhattan's forest of skyscrapers. Yellow cabs crawling like ants through the city grid. The hero stands on a ledge 20 floors up, provoking a street theatre of police cordons, firetrucks, news crews and onlookers. Meanwhile, in a top-floor office, a corporate villain admires an architectural model of another shiny skyscraper. Elsewhere, an acrobatic thief hangs precariously in an elevator shaft, dropping a spanner that goes clanging down innumerable storeys to the ground. The ominous ping of an approaching elevator spells danger. The hero and villain finally meet for a climactic rooftop showdown.
These scenes could be from a hundred Hollywood movies or more, but in fact they're from just one: Man on a Ledge, an enjoyably silly new thriller that at least sets out its stall in the title.
- 1/26/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Pritzker
In a joint announcement, the Mayor of Beijing, Guo Jinlong and the chairman of the Hyatt Foundation, Thomas K. Pritzker announced that the Pritzker Architecture Prize Ceremony will be held in Beijing, China on May 25, 2012.
This is the first time in the prize’s 32-year history that the ceremony will take place in China.
“We have held ceremonies in fourteen different countries, in venues ranging from the White House in Washington DC to Todai-ji Temple in Nara, Japan. The...
In a joint announcement, the Mayor of Beijing, Guo Jinlong and the chairman of the Hyatt Foundation, Thomas K. Pritzker announced that the Pritzker Architecture Prize Ceremony will be held in Beijing, China on May 25, 2012.
This is the first time in the prize’s 32-year history that the ceremony will take place in China.
“We have held ceremonies in fourteen different countries, in venues ranging from the White House in Washington DC to Todai-ji Temple in Nara, Japan. The...
- 10/28/2011
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Arthouse Films has just picked up North American, New Zealand and Australian rights for “How Much Does Your Building Weigh Mr. Foster?” The feature documentary from filmmakers Carlos Carcas and Norberto Lopez Amado follows the rise of world-renowned architect Norman Foster, the man behind high-profile buildings like New York’s Hearst Building and the Beijing Airport. The deal was negotiated by David Koh & Stanley Buchthal on behalf of Arthouse Films ...
- 2/14/2011
- Indiewire
This admiring, hugely enjoyable, largely uncritical documentary on Norman Foster follows the career of Britain's most successful living architect, from Manchester, where he was born quite literally on the wrong side of the tracks (a railway line separated his parents' working-class home from a prosperous middle-class area), via Yale to international renown.
Foster is an eloquent speaker with a touch of Lancashire in his voice, a likable man, who uses a sketch pad as a way of thinking, and we get to see stunningly photographed images of his work from Manhattan to Beijing, including his breathtaking Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn.
The commentary is written and spoken by the architecture critic and director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic, and the question in the title was posed by Buckminster Fuller when he flew with Foster over the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia.
Foster is an eloquent speaker with a touch of Lancashire in his voice, a likable man, who uses a sketch pad as a way of thinking, and we get to see stunningly photographed images of his work from Manhattan to Beijing, including his breathtaking Millau Viaduct over the Gorges du Tarn.
The commentary is written and spoken by the architecture critic and director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic, and the question in the title was posed by Buckminster Fuller when he flew with Foster over the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia.
- 1/30/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
A documentary profile of award-winning architect Norman Foster that just about avoids overpraising its subject, writes Peter Bradshaw
Deyan Sudjic has written this hero-worshipping tribute to architect Norman Foster, and although its uncritical tone makes it look occasionally like a promotional video, it's clear that there is a lot to hero-worship. Foster is obviously a remarkable man who made his name with bold new structures like Beijing airport, the Hearst building in New York, and the remodelled Reichstag in Berlin. The title is taken from a question put to him by his hero, American architect Buckminster Fuller, referring to the Sainsbury Centre next to Uea, a quirky question designed to get him and us thinking about the concept of mass in architecture. By accident or design, this movie makes his buildings look airily light: expressions of pure thought and design.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryNorman FosterPeter Bradshaw
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media...
Deyan Sudjic has written this hero-worshipping tribute to architect Norman Foster, and although its uncritical tone makes it look occasionally like a promotional video, it's clear that there is a lot to hero-worship. Foster is obviously a remarkable man who made his name with bold new structures like Beijing airport, the Hearst building in New York, and the remodelled Reichstag in Berlin. The title is taken from a question put to him by his hero, American architect Buckminster Fuller, referring to the Sainsbury Centre next to Uea, a quirky question designed to get him and us thinking about the concept of mass in architecture. By accident or design, this movie makes his buildings look airily light: expressions of pure thought and design.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryNorman FosterPeter Bradshaw
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media...
- 1/28/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
MGM Mirage's CityCenter is claiming itself to be the face of the "new Vegas" when it opens this week. The $8.5 billion, 18 million-square-foot development right on the Strip bucks the mega-resort trend by corralling multiple hotel and residential concepts in one master-planned site. But it's also a revolutionary convergence of starchitects--Daniel Libeskind, Rafael Viñoly, and Norman Foster, just to name a few--who worked together to create a cohesive vision for what might be Vegas' first walkable, urban development. In addition to its long list of sustainable features--many of the buildings nabbed their Leed Gold certification--CityCenter wants to live up to its name, creating a new center for the city. So the 67-acre grounds are studded with public art installations and sculpted into parks and boulevards, not paved with buffets and miles of Fear and Loathing-inspired carpet.
Headed by executive architects at Gensler, the CityCeter project encompasses a jaw-dropping three architects-of-record,...
Headed by executive architects at Gensler, the CityCeter project encompasses a jaw-dropping three architects-of-record,...
- 12/1/2009
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
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