Movies: Construction

  • 2023
    Eiffel, les derniers secrets

    Eiffel, les derniers secrets (2023)

    Eiffel, les derniers secrets

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    Eiffel, les derniers secrets
  • 2006
    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 2)

    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 2) (2006)

    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 2)

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    Highlighting the canal’s quiet beauty and fascinating people, Part 2 travels from the Genesee Waterways to Spencerport, Brockport, Holley, and Lockport– taking to the trails and the water, on everything from the historic Sam Patch tour boat to Luxury...

    15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 2)
  • 2011
    Skydancer

    Skydancer (2011)

    Skydancer

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    For more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called 'sky walkers' because they walk fearlessly atop steel beams just a foot wide, high above the city. In this nuanced portrait of modern Native American...

    Skydancer
  • 1981
    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House (1981)

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

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    Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and shipped to Boston Children's Museum. This first-hand observation of traditional tools and woodworking te...

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House
  • 2013
    Rebuilding the World Trade Center

    Rebuilding the World Trade Center (2013)

    Rebuilding the World Trade Center

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    Chronicling the reconstruction of the World Trade Center and restoration of the New York City skyline, with a focus on the construction workers who made it happen. Thirteen cameras placed throughout the site document eight years of progress with stun...

    Rebuilding the World Trade Center
  • 1963
    La Rose et le Barrage

    La Rose et le Barrage (1963)

    La Rose et le Barrage

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    A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-style church....

    La Rose et le Barrage
  • 2000
    Building Materials

    Building Materials (2000)

    Building Materials

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    Documentary made as part of the exhibition “Materiais de Construção” (FCG, 1998). The exhibition's curator, Jorge Molder, and the participating artists, Markus Raetz and Pieter Laurens Mol, are interviewed. Topics such as the artists' biography and t...

    Building Materials
  • 1967
    Monument to the Dream

    Monument to the Dream (1967)

    Monument to the Dream

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    Documents the evolution of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch from concept drawings, to fabrication of its stainless steel sections, to assembly and completion. Innovative structural techniques and brilliant design show why this avant-gar...

    Monument to the Dream
  • 1960
    Look at Life: Top People

    Look at Life: Top People (1960)

    Look at Life: Top People

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    An overview of high-rise construction activity in London. From the crane operators who build the new sky-scrapers to the tenants who live in the penthouses, this newsreel provides a colorful birds-eye view of London Town....

    Look at Life: Top People
  • 2017
    Les folies de l'architecture - Les géants du transport

    Les folies de l'architecture - Les géants du transport (2017)

    Les folies de l'architecture - Les géants du transport

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    Les folies de l'architecture - Les géants du transport
  • 1985
    Friedrichstraße 1985 - Bausituation

    Friedrichstraße 1985 - Bausituation (1985)

    Friedrichstraße 1985 - Bausituation

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    Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985....

    Friedrichstraße 1985 - Bausituation
  • 2017
    Hulhumale’ Skatepark – The Build

    Hulhumale’ Skatepark – The Build (2017)

    Hulhumale’ Skatepark – The Build

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    Follow the story of how a skatepark was built in the Maldives and the volunteers who worked day and night for a month to make it happen. See how the project unfolded from initial idea to completion....

    Hulhumale’ Skatepark – The Build
  • 2008
    Palladio Potatoes Piano Piano: Building a Villa in 29 Scenes

    Palladio Potatoes Piano Piano: Building a Villa in 29 Scenes (2008)

    Palladio Potatoes Piano Piano: Building a Villa in 29 Scenes

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    2005-2008. Video. In 2005 San Francisco real estate magnate Angelo Sangiacomo commissioned Strickland to make a movie that would chronicle final stages in the construction of his new house in Pebble Beach, CA. Amidst the spectacle of the building si...

    Palladio Potatoes Piano Piano: Building a Villa in 29 Scenes
  • 1969
    The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne

    The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne (1969)

    The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne

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    Through the story of a mason in Djenne, Komusa Tenapo, and his family, this documentary examines an African tradition of mud architecture in Mali. The environmental genius of these ancient construction techniques—thick walls with tiny windows that ke...

    The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne
  • 2016
    No Further Instructions

    No Further Instructions (2016)

    No Further Instructions

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    The award winner Japanese architect Toyo Ito designed the International Baroque Museum in Puebla, Mexico. He is well known for his majestic buildings in Europe and Asia that rise with nature inspired geometry and complex shapes that could belong in a...

    No Further Instructions
  • 1919
    Home Made

    Home Made (1919)

    Home Made

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    Ford Educational Weekly No. 164, produced by the Ford Motor Company about prefabricated houses. A new idea in house building in which the parts of the house are made in the factory, all ready to be assembled on the lot. Inspired Buster Keaton's first...

    Home Made