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district 9 meets mendes da rocha
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district 9 mothership, designer greg broadmore 2008, meets the ginásio do clube atlético paulistano by paulo mendes da rocha, 1958…
district 9 made science fiction make sense for a 112 minutes which is no mean feat. I couldn’t help thinking I had seen that spaceship before, though, except last time around it was a midcentury tennis club for the rich in sau paulo, brazil: a perfect flying saucer from mendes da rocha, one of my modernist heroes.
and so, rem koolhaas and OMA’s awful death stars are not the first projects by serious architects to have borrowed from sci-fi, but as you will notice, mendes da rocha didn’t need to be menacing to be interesting. the tennis club was his real break-through, by the way, much like the movie is expected to be for actors and director alike.
and since we are already deep within the confines of geekdom: rino levi led the jury for the tennis club competition in 1958. but you all know mendes da rocha’s miesian ground floor inserted into levi’s neo-brutalist FIESP on the avenida paulista some twenty years after the original building’s completion. there, mendes da rocha was all sensitive abstraction next to levi’s own version of the modernist building as spaceship 🙂
Warner Bros. to offer movie rentals on Facebook
(AP:NEW YORK) Movie rentals are coming to Facebook. Warner Bros. says it is testing a service that will offer select movies for purchase or rental through the public pages of these movies on the world’s largest online social network.
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Warner Bros. To Offer Movie Rentals On Facebook
Movie rentals are coming to Facebook. Warner Bros. says it is testing a service that will offer select movies for purchase or rental through the public pages of these movies on the world’s largest online social network.
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Warner Bros. To Offer Movie Rentals On Facebook
Movie rentals are coming to Facebook. Warner Bros. says it is testing a service that will offer select movies for purchase or rental through the public pages of these movies on the world’s largest online social network.
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