Grand Openings

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Silver Howard

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Filmmaker, Howard Silver SITE, a New York architectural firm, creates innovative buildings that challenge the viewer's expectations of how buildings should or shouldn't look or behave. Examines the philosophy and processes behind SITE-designed buildings, which feature intentionally peeling walls and fractured facades. Documents the construction of the Hialeah, Florida, "Terrarium" building where water runs constantly between two glass panes that enclose a tropical forest, A: Access CP: Composite Positive AC: Acetate C: 1200' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Color Sound

Complete Record: Filmmaker, Howard Silver SITE, a New York architectural firm, creates innovative buildings that challenge the viewer's expectations of how buildings should or shouldn't look or behave. Examines the philosophy and processes behind SITE-designed buildings, which feature intentionally peeling walls and fractured facades. Documents the construction of the Hialeah, Florida, "Terrarium" building where water runs constantly between two glass panes that enclose a tropical forestNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.