Posts Tagged ‘City’
Mies van der Rohe – Visions Of Space 1/7 (Less is More)
Mies van der Rohe – Less is More
part 1 of 7
Visions Of Space, BBC Documentary 2003
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First aired BBC4, 2003; ABC, 2004 In ‘Visions of Space’, Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi – whose work did so much to shape the modern world.
Hughes looks at how each one used space in different ways to express our response, respectively, to the power of religion (Gaudi), the power of the State (Speer), and the power of the corporation (Mies van der Rohe).
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 – 1969)
This BBC episode features the German architect, Mies van der Rohe, who moved to America and discovered the face of the modern corporate city.
Following Mies’ footsteps we see how an architect who began his career making kitschy, Hansel and Gretel style houses with pointy roofs, little windows and squat floorplans transformed himself into the master of international modernism – the architect of light and space.
Mies is the father of the contemporary vogue for loft living – what he was building in the 1920s still looks futuristic now. Similarly, his New York masterpiece the Seagrams Building provided the blueprint for the modern office building – without Mies no major city on Earth would look as it does.
But despite his undeniable impact there is something in Mies’ work that Hughes finds shockingly neglectful of real human needs. This master builder could spend days working out how to turn a corner with a skilfully placed beam and totally ignore the legitimate wishes and desires of those who used his buildings.
Nevertheless, Mies definition of real order and how this influences his work was: “The real order is that what St. Augustine said about the the disposition of equal and unequal things – giving to each what deserves, according to their nature.”
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recomended further reading: ‘Mies and the Nazis’ in www.guardian.co.uk
Duration : 0:9:52
How New York Works New York City Guide
An estimated 29 million Americans travel to New York each year. Maybe it’s just the lure of the big city. Or, it could be the museums, restaurants, clubs . . .
Duration : 0:4:11
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum LIVE! at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom
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Experimental rockers Sleepytime Gorilla Museum mix hard rock with performance art at NYC’s the Bowery
This video was filmed professionally by Baeble Music and is fully licensed and legal.
Duration : 0:5:54
Tour of MOCA with Maya Lin
Designed by artist and designer Maya Lin, Museum of Chinese in America’s new home is a 14,000 square foot space in a former machine shop, renovated to feature multiple exhibition galleries, interactive display kiosks, a multipurpose auditorium/classroom, a research center, and a flexible space for multidisciplinary public programs.
Production Team: Kim Spurlock, Yasmine Espert , David Chan, Nancy Tong, Doug Rossi.
Duration : 0:6:53
Mystery of The Forbidden City Part 1/3
The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost five centuries, it served as the home of the Emperor and his household, and the ceremonial and political centre of Chinese government.
Built from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 surviving buildings with 8,707 bays of rooms and covers 720,000 square metres. The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture, and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987, and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.
Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose extensive collection of artwork and artefacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Part of the museum’s former collection is now located in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Both museums descend from the same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War.
Duration : 0:10:1
The Frick Museum – New York
Henry Clay Frick bequeathed this magnificent collection of art including great masters such as Turner, Holbein and Ingres. The stunning interiors have barely changed since he lived here in the early 20th Century.
Duration : 0:1:32
The Art Scene on the Lower East Side
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The geographical center of the New York art world is always moving. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the hub of the gallery scene was in Soho. In the late 1990s, as Soho was taken over by Banana Republics and Armani Exchanges, the scene shifted uptown to Chelsea.
Today, with real estate values in Chelsea rising sharply, more galleries are staking out a place on the Lower East Side. The new New Museum of Contemporary Art, which will open December 1 on Houston and the Bowery, provides an anchor for the burgeoning scene, and a growing number of trendy hotels, bars, and restaurants make what was once a gritty neighborhood freshly chic.
Duration : 0:3:54
USS Intrepid Aircraft Carrier – Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum is located at the New York Harbor on the USS Intrepid Aircraft Carrier (Essex-class aircraft carriers). Tons of helicopters, fighter jets, and a Lockheed A-12 Blackbird.
It was built during World War II for the United States Navy. Nickname the Fighting I. She was the first US aircraft carrier to launch aircraft with steam catapults, and being the recovery ship for a Mercury and a Gemini space mission.
In 1982 Intrepid became the foundation of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City.
Duration : 0:4:39
Banksy Show • Bristol City Museum • 2009
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Banksy Show held at the Bristol City Museum & Gallery.
13th June – 31st August 2009
Banksy Versus Bristol City Museum
Duration : 0:5:55
Holiday Train Show 2009 at the New York Transit Museum
The 8th Annual Holiday Train show at the New York Transit museum in Grand Central Terminal features the MTA’s regional rolling stock of Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road, commuter trains and New York City Subway cars operating on the same bi-level 34-foot long layout, traveling through a Manhattan cityscape towards Santa’s workshop at the North Pole.
Duration : 0:4:31