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Tim Burton design exhibition explores work and mind of “unique director”

October 25, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Spooky puppets, original costumes and childhood drawings feature in The World of Tim Burton, an exhibition at London’s Design Museum charting 50 years of the American filmmaker’s work. Opening today, the exhibition of over 600 objects offers a glimpse into the mind of director and animator Burton, whose distinctively uncanny films include the 1990 Edward

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“Megalopolis is a reminder that the heroic conception of the architect is an intoxicating one”

October 10, 2024 Will Wiles 0

Francis Ford Coppola’s bizarre new epic movie about a visionary architect has been panned by critics. Will Wiles asks what it all says about the profession’s role within contemporary popular culture. One of the characters in Charlie Kaufman’s 2008 film Synecdoche New York lives in a house that’s on fire. It’s on fire when they

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Explore all 17 Tokyo Toilet projects featured in Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days

March 8, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Designed by architects including Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma, the Tokyo Toilet project forms the backdrop for the Oscar-nominated film Perfect Days. Here, Dezeen rounds up all 17 facilities. The Tokyo Toilet project brings together 17 public toilets in the city’s Shibuya district, created by architects and designers over the past six years. Commissioned by

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Civilian draws on “grandeur” of early cinemas for Sandbox Films offices

December 23, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

New York studio Civilian has designed the headquarters for a documentary production company in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, which includes an art deco-influenced screening room. The offices for award-winning Sandbox Films are located in a landmarked 1920s neo-gothic skyscraper, and provide the company with its first dedicated workspace. Spread across 4,200 square feet (390 square metres)

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Shrek and Donkey invite guests to stay in mud-laden Shrek’s Swamp

September 27, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Rental website Airbnb has designed Shrek’s Swamp, a grass-and-mud-covered hut underneath a tree in the Scottish Highlands. The small house, which has a bare-earth floor, is described as “a stumpy, secluded haven fit for a solitude-seeking ogre”. It is being hosted by Donkey, Shrek’s best friend, who is swamp-sitting while Shrek himself is away for

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Asteroid City exhibition immerses visitors in Wes Anderson’s Americana film sets

June 23, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

An exhibition of the 1950s sets, props, miniature models, costumes and artwork used in Wes Anderson’s latest film Asteroid City has opened at 180 The Strand in London. The exhibition was designed to immerse visitors in the film’s fictitious world – a desert town in 1950s America famous for its meteor crater and celestial observatory.

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Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale “declares the death of the flushing toilet”

May 17, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A Finnish huussi, or composting toilet, has been built in the centre of the country’s pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which aims at critically exploring the world’s unsustainable approach to sanitation. Declaring the “death of the flushing toilet as we know it” the pavilion, called Huussi – Imagining the Future History of Sanitation,

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Tbilisi’s Blueberry Nights hotel makes “people feel like they’re inside a movie”

March 15, 2023 Alice Finney 0

Georgian architect Sandro Takaishvili has converted an apartment building in Tbilisi into a hotel, with interiors informed by his love of cinema and movie projectors in all 16 rooms. Taking over three storeys above a restaurant in the capital’s Vera neighbourhood, the Blueberry Nights hotel features a theatrical colour scheme, Japanese furnishings and moody lighting.

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Kate Byron designs modernist Don’t Worry Darling set as “a playful and debaucherous take on the 1950s”

October 10, 2022 Alice Finney 0

Production designer Kate Byron used vintage “treasures” and referenced key modernist architecture to create the set of psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling, which was shot in California’s Palm Springs. Byron drew on the architecture and interior style of the many modernist buildings that dominate the landscape in the desert city to create Victory – a

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Kate Byron designs modernist Don’t Worry Darling set as “a playful and debaucherous take on the 1950s”

October 10, 2022 Alice Finney 0

Production designer Kate Byron used vintage “treasures” and referenced key modernist architecture to create the set of psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling, which was shot in California’s Palm Springs. Byron drew on the architecture and interior style of the many modernist buildings that dominate the landscape in the desert city to create Victory – a

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