Colonnade Park
A house´s carrying capacity becomes visible in how it is used. With Colonnade Park, the last part of a documentary trilogy about modernist residential buildings, Heidrun Holzfeind, after turning toward Rome (Corviale, Il Serpentone, 2001); and Warsaw (Behind the Iron Gate, 2009); for the first time turns to the New World with the high-rise Colonnade as well as two pavilion buildings by Mies van der Rohe in Newark, New Jersey. Built in the 1950s to appeal to a middle-class elite and make living in the center of Newark attractive again, the building has a moving story behind it, which...
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Orig. Title
Colonnade Park
Colonnade Park
Year
2011
2011
Countries
USA, Austria
USA, Austria
Duration
54 min
54 min