Mateo Arquitectura recently completed the new building for the Film Library of Catalonia in the Raval district of Barcelona. Designed by Josep Lluís Mateo, the project won the first prize in a restricted competition in 2004 and houses archives, a library and cinema halls on…

Check out this new animated film, Plan Of The City, conceived and directed by Joshua Frankel, featuring flying skyscrapers from New York and Shanghai, remixed cities, the Martian landscape and a chamber ensemble. The film is, in part, a love letter to architecture, urban planing, and impossible…

Barcelona-based Mateo Arquitectura have shared with us some fascinating material documenting the construction progress of a new building for the Cinematheque de Catalunya in the Raval, Barcelona. Designed by Josep Lluís Mateo, the project won the first prize in a restricted competition in 2004 and will house…

Co.Design recently called upon all designers to create an infographic that visually explains the plot of Inception, this summer's most complicated movie. And the winner of the contest is Rick Slusher, a graphic-designer based in New York with his very elegant graphic summary of the film.…

{the live stream has expired} Versa Design, LeroLero Productions and Archinect are presenting the premiere event, Shifting Paradigms: Design in Transition to be held at the Center for Architecture in New York on June 22, 2010 from 6:00 - 8:00pm. This event will also be streamed Live on Archinect starting…

SMIBE (The Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment) recently announced the winning entries of its second international short film competition. Following the call under the theme “Personal Infrastructures,” over two hundred entries from film makers around the world went into the…

The winner of the 2010 Arnold W. Brunner Grant is the documentary film Archiculture, co-produced and co-directed by Ian Harris and David Krantz. Click here to read a brief interview with…

On July 27, Bustler reported about the big night at Calgary’s Grand Theatre where the five competition finalists presented their designs for the Cantos National Music Center competition. Presenting firms that night were Diller Scofidio and Renfro, New York, NY, Jean Nouvel Workshop, Paris, France, Allied…

On a beautiful Los Angeles afternoon, the SMIBE (Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment) jury met at the Neutra VDL House to deliberate the finalists of the short film competition “Story about a Place”. The jurors were Christopher…

Artists in Design, Literary, Media, Performing, and Visual Arts From Across the Country Each Receive $50,000 Award United States Artists (USA), the national artists’ advocacy organization, yesterday announced the recipients of fifty USA Fellowships for 2008 totaling $2.5 million. This marks the third consecutive year of the USA Fellows program,…