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ARCHITECTURE


ARCHITECTURE


WORLD'S DREAM STAGE, THE

Beijing, the capital of China, has rapidly grown into a city of architectural genius. With the opening of the National Center for Performing Arts designed by world famous French architect Paul Andreu, (Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport,) Beijing now hosts the largest ellipsoid in the world at over 6 million square feet.

Complimenting "The Bird's Nest, Beijing's Olympic Stadium, the silver dome-shaped grand theatre is affectionately dubbed "The Egg," and is covered with 2000 titanium panels and 1000 pieces of shining glass. It is strategically built on Beijing's Chang-an Avenue, an area filled with architectural history spanning 600 years. This "Dream Stage" is surrounded by a magnificent clear sky and a man-made lake. The highly sophisticated Center seats 6,500 people and is made up of three performance halls: the Opera Hall, Concert Hall and Theatre Hall. No only is it an architectural marvel, but also a landscape wonder with pleasant gardens, and expertly designed engineering. From sound engineering to structural engineering. "The World's Dream Stage" will take you on a personal tour and in-depth presentation of this magnificent landmark in the capital city of China.


Item no.: CV00161167
Format: DVD
Duration: 54 minutes
Audience: Senior High - College
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 195.00

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BIRD'S NEST, THE

Experience the birth of the "Bird's Nest," Beijing's iconic National Stadium which played host to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Swedish designer, Thomas Herzog, conceptualized this marvel, which is not only functional, but architectural and cultural. Explore the creation of this magnificent structure from the beginning stages through the construction and completion. You'll hear from the designers, architects and welders who each played a part. The Bird's Nest stands apart from any other stadium as a one of a kind structure unique in its design and social significance. Like humans, buildings have life. The Bird's Nest will forever be a piece of Beijing's history and Chinese culture.

Item no.: CJ00161100
Format: DVD
Duration: 51 minutes
Audience: Senior High - College
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 195.00

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MEGAWHEEL

The World's Tallest Observation Wheel.

The Singapore Flyer is a giant observation wheel sometimes referred to as "The Flyer." It officially opened to the public on March 1, 2008. Megawheel documents the incredible engineering feat it took to create the world's largest Ferris wheel, even taller than the famed London Eye.

Reaching 42 stories high, the Flyer comprises a 492 ft diameter wheel, built over a three-story terminal building, giving it a total height of 541 ft. This exceeds the Star of Nanchang by 16 ft and the London Eye by 98 ft. Each of the 28 air-conditioned capsules is capable of holding 28 passengers, and a complete rotation of the wheeltakes approximately 30 minutes.

Located on the southeast tip of the Marina Centre reclaimed land, it offers broad views of the city center and beyond including the Indonesian islands of Batam and Bintan, and Johor, Malaysia. With engineers from London, France, Japan, and The Netherlands, and construction done in Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia and China, this is truly a work of the world come together.

Related Programs: The Bird's Nest, The World's Dream Stage, Towers


Item no.: SN00161130
Format: DVD
Duration: 46 minutes
Audience: Senior High - College
Copyright: 2009
Price: USD 195.00

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GAUDI: LIFE AND WORKS

This unique program describes the life and work of Antoni Gaudi, an extraordinary architect whose works are displayed throughout Barcelona. Presented in the guise of an autobiography, "Gaudi: Life and Works" invites us into the mind of a creative revolutionary. The film reveals Gaudi's unusual perspectives and his extraordinary architectural vision. It highlights his personality, his sensitivity and the images of his art. Revealed are the lesser known facts of his professional and personal life from his earliest works through his final days living in poverty in Barcelona. Upon graduation, the director of Gaudi's Architecture school said, "We have granted the title of architect to a genius or a madman." Gaudi was greatly inspired by nature and religion which manifested in his works including his most famous, the Sagrada Familia-a cathedral which he began at age 31 and remains unfinished to this day. "Gaudi: Life and Works" brilliantly brings to life perhaps the greatest architectural visionary of the century.

Item no.: PE00160943
Format: DVD
Duration: 55 minutes
Audience: Sr. High-College
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 225.00

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GLORIES OF ISLAMIC ART - PART 1

Presenter: Akbar Ahmed

The first program in the series looks at the achievements of the first Islamic dynasty, the Umayyads, who established their capital at Damascus. Their regime spread throughout greater Syria and they left a rich architectural heritage. This includes two of the great surviving Islamic buildings, the Great Mosque of Damascus and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. The program emphasises how the early Islamic builders and architects used ideas and materials inherited from their Byzantine predecessors - for instance columns and capitals are clearly "borrowed" from earlier buildings and earlier ages. In just the same way, Islam inherited a strong Christian tradition in the Middle East and adapted Christian tenets and beliefs within their new faith. Christianity may have been to a large extent superseded in the Middle East - it was still respected. For instance, in the middle of the prayer hall of the Damascus mosque stands the burial shrine of St. John the Baptist. Umayyad achievement is seen also in Spain, where the family's descendants ruled long after they had lost power in Syria. In Spain too they left the great legacy of Andalusia - al-Andalus. Akbar Ahmed goes on to talk about the influence of Salah-al-Din, Saladin, the revered warrior who defeated the Crusaders. He is remembered in the region as much for his piety and integrity as his prowess in battle. Saladin and his successors started their own regime, the Ayyubids, which left its own architectural influence on the face of the region. This program does not just deal with mosque or religious architecture. At Jericho we see the remains of one of the Arab conquerors" luxurious desert palaces, with its famous gazelle mosaic that has become an icon of Islamic visual art. From the Ayyubid period we see the mighty citadel of Aleppo, only really conquered by Tamerlane himself.


Item no.: ST00160944
Format: DVD
Duration: 45 minutes
Audience: Sr. High-College
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 195.00

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INSIDE ISLAM: BLUE ISLAM ON THE SILK ROAD

In this episode discover the Silk Road, the iconic trading route between Europe and Asia continues its renaissance through the teachings of Allah in Central Asia. Uzbekistan stood at the crossroads of Eastern and Western Civilization and developed into a Muslim Society. Discover the Silk Road's past and follow its majestic history

Item no.: MD00161044
Format: DVD
Duration: 48 minutes
Audience: College
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 195.00

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INSIDE ISLAM: FEZ, SCENT OF MEDIEVAL ISLAM

During the Middle Ages, Fez, once the crown jewel of Moroccan civilization was the core of Islamic Culture and education. At the Mosquee Qaraouiyne University some of the great scientists, mathematicians and mullahs studied and subsequently awaked Europe out of the darkness of the middle ages with their discoveries and inventions. Today, Fez is a bustling city with roads so narrow that donkeys are the only method of transportation.

Item no.: KK00161045
Format: DVD
Duration: 48 minutes
Audience: College
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 195.00

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INSIDE ISLAM: LIGHT OF ALLAH SHINING THROUGHOUT EUROPE, ANDALUCIA

In 711 A.D. the Moroccan Islamic army crossed the strait of Gibraltar and reached Tarifa, a port at the edge of the European continent, which began a rule of more than 800 years. Those years of Islamic rule left unique traces of its culture in the Andalusia region of Spain. Now, Southern Spain has a complex history having absorbed the influences from not only Islam but from the Romans and Christianity. Cordoba became a symbolic city mixing the various influences and now has a culture unique to Spain. Does that cultural development continue today?

Item no.: YJ00161046
Format: DVD
Duration: 48 minutes
Audience: College
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 195.00

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INSIDE ISLAM: THE KORAN, THE SOUND THAT CALLS ALLAH

Filmed in Turkey, Lebanon and Iran, this episode profiles the origins and history of Islam by analyzing the teachings of the Koran. The most sacred book in Islam, the Koran serves as a guiding principle and dictates a Muslim's daily life. Among other topics profiled: Jihad, architecture of some important Mosques and selected history of Islam's relationship to Christianity.

Item no.: AG00161047
Format: DVD
Duration: 48 minutes
Audience: College
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 195.00

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INSIDE ISLAM: WINDS OF CHANGE AND CHADOR

Islamic societies are generally known for their restrictions on women's rights and freedoms. For example, polygamy, honor killings and the enforcement of wearing the Hijab and Chador. Since all cultural traits are created because of social needs in the region, is it right for outsiders to judge this practice? How do people currently living in the region accept these customs? What do today's Islamic women think of these traditions? What is the image of Islamic women in this ever-changing world?

Item no.: NR00161048
Format: DVD
Duration: 48 minutes
Audience: College
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 195.00

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TOWERS: SYMBOLS AND EMBLEMS OF MODERNITY

Building higher, even higher, is the culmination of an ancient dream, from the mythical tower of Babel to the Eiffel Tower. A landmark feature for over two centuries in the cityscapes of New York, Chicago, Rio or Sao Paulo, towers are now reached Asia where they are beating all records for height. A building over one kilometer high is being planned in Malaysia. Far from going out of fashion, this architectural challenge has become the essential element of the contemporary urban landscape. Its current omnipresence can be explained partly by the need to gain space in cities that are more and more satured, but not entirely. The absolute symbol of economic growth, the tower is the prerogative of the superpowers, but also countries that are developing, who see in a way to assert their success. In Paris or New York, towers crowd the business districts. In Dubai and Shanghai these giants of concrete and steel have radically transformed the shoreline. Everywhere, architects rival each other in originality: round, triangular, twisted, cigar-shaped, military shell-shaped or even in the form of an icy peak... All have their special place in the typology of modern architecture, which encourages research into new, ever stronger and lighter materials. On the frontier where architecture, urbanism, economics and sociology meet, this documentary does the tour of the towers of the world in 52 minutes, with commentaries from their engineers and some of the greatest of contemporary architects: Jean Nouvel, Christian de Partzamparc, Paul Andreu, Norman Foster...

Item no.: HN00160951
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Audience: Sr. High-College
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 225.00

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WALKS WITH AN ARCHITECT - BARCELONA

Within its walls Barcelona encloses architectural treasurers of which the greatest curiosity is the Church of the Sagrada Familia.

Item no.: VZ00160934
Format: DVD
Duration: 26 minutes
Audience: Senior High, College
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 195.00

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WALKS WITH AN ARCHITECT - BRASILIA

The Experience of a capital created from nothing forty years ago on a desert plateau in Brazil.

Item no.: NT00160927
Format: DVD
Duration: 26 minutes
Audience: Senior High, College
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 195.00

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WALKS WITH AN ARCHITECT - DUBAI, MANAMA, DOHA

Along the Persian Gulf flourishes a chain of tourists cities with futuristic architecture heralding the look of the 21st century.

Item no.: FL00160928
Format: DVD
Duration: 26 minutes
Audience: Senior High, College
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 195.00

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WALKS WITH AN ARCHITECT - LONDON

The rediscovery of a city that cares more about the art of living than its monuments.

Item no.: PH00160929
Format: DVD
Duration: 26 minutes
Audience: Senior High, College
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 195.00

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WALKS WITH AN ARCHITECT - MANHATTAN

Around Central Park, discovering the city that is the most representative of the architecture of the 20th century.

Item no.: EN00160930
Format: DVD
Duration: 26 minutes
Audience: Senior High, College
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 195.00

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WALKS WITH AN ARCHITECT - PARIS

Paris, a capital playing on the contrast between tiny popular streets unknown to tourists and the beautiful buildings along the Seine.

Item no.: LR00160931
Format: DVD
Duration: 26 minutes
Audience: Senior High, College
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 195.00

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WALKS WITH AN ARCHITECT - RIO DE JANEIRO

The most agreeable city in Brazil was also the site of the most successful architectural creations of the 20th century.

Item no.: TV00160932
Format: DVD
Duration: 26 minutes
Audience: Senior High, College
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 195.00

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WALKS WITH AN ARCHITECT - SHANGHAI

In the new China open to the West, Shanghai is developing apace in a 21st century architectural style.

Item no.: CG00160933
Format: DVD
Duration: 26 minutes
Audience: Senior High, College
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 195.00

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BUILDINGS - BUILDING A HOUSE

Building a House begins with a montage of various houses people build, and looks at special features needed for a wheelchair or for one in the tropics. Housing of the past appears in a restored 19th century miner's cottage. From plans on paper to bricks and mortar, a young boy keeps us informed about his new home's progress.

Item no.: WN00161101
Format: DVD
Duration: 15 minutes
Audience: Intermediate, Senior High
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 195.00

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BUILDINGS - HOMES ON THE MOVE

A family goes on a camping vacation, then explores different types of accommodations along the way, such as swags for stockmen and shelters built by nomadic people. A couple travels in a caravan, one goes by a horse drawn gypsy caravan on a country trail and looks at a houseboat. The central family packs up and leaves nothing but footprints.

Item no.: WY00161102
Format: DVD
Duration: 15 minutes
Audience: Intermediate, Senior High
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 195.00

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BUILDINGS - HOSPITAL

A young girl and her toy go to a hospital after falling from a tree house. She has an X-ray and spends the night in the children's ward. Her toy tours the hospital learning about gathering and storing patient information, equipment in a hospital kitchen, features that prevent the spread of germs that assist patient movement around the hospital. But the people in a hospital and also the design of the building help with the care of patients.

Item no.: EZ00161103
Format: DVD
Duration: 15 minutes
Audience: Intermediate, Senior High
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 195.00

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BUILDINGS - SHOPPING CENTER

A young girl and her father visit a major shopping center and explore what the architects took into account in its design. Fire safety features, facilities for people in wheelchairs, the value of signs and maps, and the deliberate use of certain building materials. Information is delivered through conversation between the narrator and the girl's inquisitive toy, which comes to life after being accidentally left behind in a supermarket.

Item no.: PT00161104
Format: DVD
Duration: 15 minutes
Audience: Intermediate, Senior High
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 195.00

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BUILDINGS - TALL BUILDINGS

Why do we have tall buildings? What are some of the problems architects solve when structures go up instead of out? A young girl in an apartment block demonstrates a garbage chute and a security intercom system. Her toy explores other parts of the building, from the underground car park to the rooftop. The toy leads us to the construction site of a multi-story apartment block and learns what makes the structure strong. The girl tells us reasons she enjoys living up high.

Item no.: PH00161105
Format: DVD
Duration: 15 minutes
Audience: Intermediate, Senior High
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 195.00

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CIRCLE WITHIN A SQUARE

The stunning visual legacy of Islams greatest architect... The genius of Mimar Sinans classic Ottoman style is illustrated in this profile of his life and work. His magnificent mosques and palaces, bridges and hundreds of public buildings have influenced architecture through the ages. The great 16th century architect Mimar Sinan rose from humble beginnings to become chief architect to the Ottoman ruler Suleyman the Magnificent. This beautiful film traces the development of Sinans unique Islamic style in the context of his times- and highlights some of the 500 known buildings he designed during his amazing career. The famous domed structure of his masterpiece - the Selimiye Mosque in the Turkish town of Edirne- is recognized throughout the world as the solution to the classic architectural puzzle of the Circle Within the Square.

Item no.: TJ00160158
Format: DVD
Duration: 52 minutes
Audience: College
Copyright: 2000
Price: USD 195.00

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