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The National Dance Center Architectures-Achievements in Modern Architecture
Title
The National Dance Center [electronic resource] : Architectures-Achievements in Modern Architecture / ARTE France.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : ARTE France, [2012]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : distributed by Infobase, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (1 video file (26 min., 24 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 04, 2015.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description (Infobase, October 1 2015).
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
A new place of culture, created in 2004, following the reconversion of a municipal venue and the abandonment of a political utopia. In the early 1970s, architect Jacques Kalisz was asked to build an administrative complex, grouping together under one roof a set of administrative, social and legal services (a court, a social security center, a police station, a tax center, a union headquarters, an unemployment pole, a morgue, kennels etc.). The Pantin Administrative Centre was then one gigantic, solid, concrete vessel, beached on the banks of the Ourcq Canal, on the Parisian suburban belt, known as the "Ceinture Rouge". 20 years later, the centre had been deserted, following the failure of a social utopia. Destroying the premises was deemed to be too costly, so it was decided to renovate the place. In 2004, the building took on a radical new function - offices and office workers gave way to dance companies and rehearsal studios. This reconversion, which was awarded the Equerre d'Argent
Variant and related titles
Architectures-Achievements in Modern Architecture
Films on demand.
Other formats
digital transfer of (manifestation): ARTE France, 2012.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Architectures-Achievements in Modern Architecture
System details note
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
11 & up.
Contents
A Remodeled and Repurposed Building (1:58)
Kalisz's Manifesto: A Building for the People (2:29)
Architecture: Brutalism (1:22)
Political Organization of the Building (2:35)
The People's Palace (3:07)
Threatened Demolition (1:13)
Remodeling the Abandoned Building (1:29)
Repurposing the Architectural Interior Volumes (1:36)
Performance Space Alterations (2:45)
Respecting the Original Design (2:14)
Red Stucco Curtain Wall (2:31)
Brutalism Transformed into Art (2:06)
Credits:The National Dance Center: Architecture - Achievements in Modern Architecture (0:29)
Videorecording number
94736 Infobase
4065319s Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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ARTE France, production company.
Infobase, film distributor.
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