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Jennifer Morden creates “aspirational” mid-century house with sinister dungeon for Fresh

June 16, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Fresh set design

Production designer Jennifer Morden created a mid-century house to reflect the personality of the flamboyant and misogynistic antagonist in comedy-thriller film Fresh. Morden and her team built two individual sets in a studio to represent the house for the film, which was directed by Mimi Cave and shot in Canada’s British Columbia. The sets were designed to

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House in The Girl Before designed to feel both like a sanctuary and “a fortress or prison”

January 13, 2022 Alice Finney 0
The dining room inside the set of The Girl Before

Production designer Jon Henson drew on minimalist Japanese architecture to create a house that acts “like a fourth character” for the set of BBC television series The Girl Before. Written by British author JP Delaney, The Girl Before is a psychological thriller novel set in a fictional one-bedroom house called One Folgate Street in Hampstead,

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Geneva students draw upon female form to reimagine Clockwork Orange milk bar

September 9, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0
Korova Milk Bar by Lolita Gomez and Blanca Algarra Sanchez at Milan design week

Imagery of breasts and beakers is combined in this fountain, designed by graduates Lolita Gomez and Blanca Algarra Sanchez based on the Korova Milk Bar from A Clockwork Orange and currently on display at Milan design week. The installation, which forms part of the Alcova exhibition, encompasses a fleshy pink, circular bar that serves guests

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10 films for architecture fans recommended by Dezeen readers

April 15, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Ex Machina

In response to our story highlighting films with interesting architecture to stream during coronavirus self-isolation, Dezeen commenters have recommended 10 more architectural films.  Ex Machina, 2014 Troy Smith Studio flagged that we missed science-fiction movie Ex Machina from our list: “Ex Machina, if I remember correctly, took place in a cool looking house”. Directed

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Renzo Piano’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures nears completion in Los Angeles

February 12, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures by Renzo Piano

New construction images of the Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures have emerged, which actor Tom Hanks revealed at the Oscars will open this year. Located on Wilshire Boulevard, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures project comprises the renovation of the 1930s May Company Building, and a new glass sphere designed by the Italian

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A Metallic Villadrone movie by Studio MK27 depicts metabolist future city

January 9, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
A Metallic Villadrone movie by Studio MK27

Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27 has created this short sci-fi animation that imagines a city in 2100 with drone-powered flying homes, 3D-printed food, and replaceable body organs. Directed by Studio MK27 founder Marcio Kogan, A Metallic Villadrone depicts a city that takes cues from the Japanese metabolism movement, a post-war modernist architectural movement led by

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Five movies not to miss at New York’s Architecture and Design Film Festival

October 7, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
City Dreamers, directed by Joseph Hillel

New York’s Architecture and Design Film Festival founder has picked out five screenings to get in the diary ahead of the event’s opening next week, including movies that explore the lives and works of architect Denise Scott Brown, Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy and 20th-century architect Bruce Goff. Forming part of month-long event Archtober, the 11th

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SCI-arc’s Fiction and Entertainment graduates imagine future worlds

October 3, 2019 Calum Lindsay 0

From a desolate vision of LA burning to a VR experience of a polluted ocean, Dezeen has selected four projects created by graduates of the Fiction and Entertainment masters program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. SCI-Arc’s MS Fiction and Entertainment program is led by Liam Young, a speculative architect who features in Dezeen’s award-winning

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