Ten films for architecture fans recommended by Dezeen readers
In response to our story highlighting films with interesting architecture to stream during coronavirus self-isolation, Dezeen commenters have recommended 10 more architectural films. More
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Ten films with amazing architecture to stream during coronavirus self-isolation
With hundreds of millions of people currently in isolation or lockdown, Dezeen's India Block has selected 10 feature films that use architecture in exciting ways to watch as a distraction from coronavirus-induced boredom. More
Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures nears completion in Los Angeles
New construction images of the Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures have emerged, which actor Tom Hanks revealed at the Oscars will open this year. More
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A Metallic Villadrone movie by Studio MK27 depicts metabolist future city
Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27 has created this short sci-fi animation that imagines a city in 2100 with drone-powered flying homes, 3D-printed food, and replaceable body organs. More
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Refik Anadol uses AI to create mesmerising film of New York City
Turkish artist Refik Anadol has used artificial intelligence to turn millions of photographs of New York into the Machine Hallucination film. More
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Five movies not to miss at New York's Architecture and Design Film Festival
New York's Architecture and Design Film Festival founder has picked out five screenings to get in the diary ahead of the event's opening next week, including movies that explore the lives and works of architect Denise Scott Brown, Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy and 20th-century architect Bruce Goff. More
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SCI-Arc's Fiction and Entertainment graduates imagine future worlds
From a desolate vision of LA burning to a VR experience of a polluted ocean, Dezeen has selected four projects created by graduates of the Fiction and Entertainment masters program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. More
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Dan Tobin Smith blows up gemstones to 60 times their size for Void installation
Photographer Dan Tobin Smith used footage of more than 100 gemstones, blown up to 60 times their size, to create an immersive installation in the basement of Collins Music Hall for London Design Festival. More
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Buildings in LA are torn down and rebuilt as fast as movie sets, says Tarantino's production designer
Major high-rise developments are razing the architectural past of Los Angeles at a rapid rate, says the production designer behind the 1960s sets of Quentin Tarantino's movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. More
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Competition: win an illustrated film poster by Aiste Stancikaite
In our latest competition, we've teamed up with creative agency Grand Matter to offer five readers the chance to win the print of their choice, illustrated by artist Aiste Stancikaite. More
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Stanley Kubrick showed "what the future might look like" says Deyan Sudjic
Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic has paid tribute to Stanley Kubrick, as an exhibition exploring the life and work of the legendary film director opens at the museum today. More
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"Design has to be about modifying power structures" says Nelly Ben Hayoun
Designers need to change the model of leadership to create a more diverse and critical industry, says designer Nelly Ben Hayoun, who has directed the documentary I Am (Not) A Monster. More
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Alita: Battle Angel sets offer a "respite" from dark sci-fi dystopia, say production designers
The post-apocalyptic architecture in sci-fi blockbuster Alita: Battle Angel is a diverse fusion of Panama's vibrant ruins and Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City, say its creators. More
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VR film offers preview of Amateur Architecture Studio's Lin'an History Museum
The Bartlett School of Architecture has created a virtual reality tour of the Lin'an History Museum, designed by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu's studio, which is yet to open to the public. More
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Black Panther's Oscar-winning costumes include 3D-printed designs
Black Panther took home the 2019 Academy Award for Best Costume Design for outfits that included an intricate collar and crown created using 3D printing. More
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Modsy reimagines Oscar-winning film sets with a "modern twist"
Interior design studio Modsy has created renders of rooms based on the production design of five Best Picture Oscar-winning movies. More
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Fiona Crombie reimagines historic Hatfield House in Oscar-winning film The Favourite
Production designer Fiona Crombie used secret passages and an enormous fake facade to transform a 17th-century English country house into the set for award-winning movie The Favourite. More
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Five Oscar-nominated films with standout production design
To celebrate The 91st Academy Awards, we've chosen five of our favourite set designs from this year's nominees, from the afrofuturist cityscapes of Black Panther's Wakanda to the meticulous detail of Roma. More
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Keiichi Matsuda explores dystopian future of the workplace in new film Merger
London-based designer Keiichi Matsuda suggests how augmented reality will define the workstation of the future, in a short film that explores the growing obsession with productivity in the workplace. More
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Luca Guadagnino looked to "forefathers of modernism" for Suspiria sets, says designer
Luca Guadagnino's rendition of horror movie classic Suspiria takes its design cues from the modernist architecture of masters such as Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos, says production designer Inbal Weinberg. More
