Norman Foster

L'acteur Jeremy Irons se lance dans un voyage épique à travers les salles du musée du Prado à Madrid, en Espagne, deux cents ans après son inauguration, le long de couloirs où des milliers de chefs-d'œuvre de tous les temps racontent la vie des souverains et des gens du peuple, et des histoires sur les périodes de guerre et de folie et les périodes de paix et de bonheur ; parce que, comme le disait Goya, l'imagination, la mère des arts, produit des monstres impossibles, mais aussi des merveilles indicibles.

The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressive and pro-West Russians can be, when it comes to comprehending the essence of beauty. Ivan Tsvetayev, a village priest's son, the founder of the museum, wanted the new generation of "Ivans" to understand that we are Europe, while Antiquity is our mutual cradle.

In the summer of 2018, on the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park, world-renowned artist Christo created his first public work of art in the UK. Inspired by ancient Mesopotamian tombs, the Mastaba is constructed from 7,506 painted oil barrels and weighs six hundred tonnes. It is the latest work in a career spanning half a century and stretching across the world. His work to date have included surrounding 11 islands off the Florida coast with pink polypropylene and wrapping Berlin's Reichstag and the Pont Neuf in Paris. This programme charts the creation of the Mastaba - from the first barrels being put on the water to its final unveiling - and paints a portrait of Christo as he looks back on a life spent making provocative works of art with his wife and partner Jeanne-Claude.

À travers un voyage dans de nombreux pays, ce documentaire suit l’ascension de Norman Foster, né dans une famille populaire de Manchester et reconnu aujourd’hui comme l’un des architectes les plus brillants de son époque.

The first documentary retrospective of Harry Seidler’s architectural legacy, Harry Seidler: Modernist reveals an intimate portrait of his extraordinary life and internationally...

Can a single building impact the career of an architect, the image of a global company and even the skyline of a big city? Just a month and a day after the disastrous attack on the World Trade Center in New York, the first steel beam of a new tower is erected in London. One question is on everybody’s mind: is it the right decision to build a new iconic tower in the midst of London’s financial district, on a site that has already been bombed before? The 40-storey steel and glass tower sparks further controversy. Norman Foster, one of Britain’s most visionary architects, calls his design for the new Swiss Re London headquarters ‘radial – socially, technically, architecturally and spatially’. In fact, its size and shape are so radical that it is almost immediately nicknamed ‘the erotic gherkin’. Will the Gherkin become the landmark they all dream of?

A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.

This insightful documentary feature from PJ Letofsky serves as a profile of iconic Austrian-American Architect Richard Neutra, whose work and legacy have helped shape the modern understanding of design, architecture and the interconnected fabric of nature. Today, Richard's legacy lives on through his son, Dion, who has taken up his father's mantle after nearly three-decades under his mentorship.

Construit dans le style néoclassique sous l'Empire allemand, le palais du Reichstag a connu un passé mouvementé. Incendié en 1933 peu de temps après la prise de pouvoir de Hitler, détruit par les bombardements de 1945, le bâtiment a été reconstruit pendant la division de l'Allemagne puis restauré par l'architecte Norman Foster dans les années 1990. Christoph Weinert revient sur les principaux moments de son histoire.

Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.