Streets & “Stradaccie” in L.A.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

This video explores some streets and “stradaccie” (“ugly streets” in Italian) in Los Angeles, not as tourists, but as observers of the multiple messages they carry. It covers an area of approximately 10 x 16 miles (16 x 25 kilometers) which includes Inglewood, Ocean Park, Santa Monica, Brentwood, Westwood, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Hollywood, Downtown L.A., Chinatown and Koreatown. The street is the primary urban space. It acts upon us 24/7 throughout our lives. It synthetize what we are as a culture and also contributes in shaping what we are as individuals.

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Gehry in Vegas

Friday, February 15, 2013
Gehry-in-Vegas Architecture Awareness

The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas is a joyful, youthful and exuberant building. It shakes the assumption that innovative freshness has to do with an artist’s age. Like Matisse’s paper-cut collages, conceived at an old age, Frank Gehry shows us that he is a young architect at eighty–four.

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The Blue Boulevard Vision

Sunday, February 10, 2013
THE BLUE BOULEVARD Architecture Awareness

This video illustrates Professor Michael Burt’s vision of a marine development option for Israel through the creation of artificial islands capable of absorbing 3,000,000 people and infrastructure. The islands shall be based on a new technology invented by Prof. Burt that is friendly to the marine ecosystem and uses only 7% of material to build the islands’ volume.

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Israel Beyond Wars

Saturday, December 29, 2012
Israel Beyond Wars Architecture Awareness

Israel Beyond Wars bring up a different image of Israel than the ones frequently shown by the media. It shows popular places crowded with people, innovating architecture and a continuously shanging landscape.

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The Sands of Long Beach

Saturday, September 8, 2012
Sands-of-Long-Beach Architecture Awareness

Long Beach’s beach is a long urban one. It serves mainly the local population. It is a relaxing, mostly uncrowded place, in spite of being surrounded by the 16 million people of the Greater Los Angeles. This video illustrates different segments for different interests: walking, biking, kite surfing and water sports.

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