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
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