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22) The architect
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The architect of a crime-infested apartment project engages in conflict with a woman living there who wants the building torn down and decent housing built in its place.
Pub. Date
©2018
Description
How do you convince the world that aliens have secretly come to earth and taken human form in a plot to take over the planet? That's the daunting and dangerous task faced by architect David Vincent who accidentally sees a UFO land and now must convince others to fight the threat - unless the Invaders silence him first!
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"...comprehensive survey of Wright's life and career, from his apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan in Chicago to his final days at Taliesin in Wisconsin. Among the buildings included here are Robie House, the Wright home and Studio, Ennis House, Millard House, Unity Temple, the Larkin Building, Hollyhock House, the Guggenheim Museum and many others"--Container.
25) City of Ember
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
For centuries, the residents of the underground City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the City's massive power generator begins to fail, the streetlamps fade - along with the hopes of the townspeople. Now it will be up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left by the ancient builders to find the way out of Ember before their world is plunged into complete darkness.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
For the first time ever, see the creative world of LEGO come to life in the all-new feature-length DVD movie. Clutch Powers, the best builder and explorer in the LEGO universe, heads off on his most dangerous mission yet. Join Clutch and his team of LEGO experts as their adventure leads them from LEGO City to the Space Police prison planet to the medieval world of Ashlar, where they must help the rightful heir to the throne find the courage to regain...
Pub. Date
2019
Description
New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city's next skyscraper. And if things weren't bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare, a romantic comedy, and she is the leading lady.
28) Dare to be wild
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This is the true story of Mary Reynolds, a feisty landscape designer whose goal is to share the beauty of wild nature with the world. With the odds stacked against her, Mary enters the prestigious (and conservative) Chelsea Flower Show to execute a competition garden using only wild plants. To achieve her goal, she must enlist handsome botanist, Christy Collard, working in Ethiopia, and a rag-tag group of hippies to help her. From the iconic green...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.
30) Eiffel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
As Gustave Eiffel looks over Paris from the tower he built, he recalls his turbulent romance with a young woman that took place when he was designing and building the tower.
32) Love struck cafe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Megan Quinn, an aspiring architect, faces multiple tasks, developing her hometown lake into a commercialized entertainment center, forcing Mrs. Frances Figgins, her childhood mentor, out of her family's home, and helping out at her family caf ̌after her father breaks his leg, all while also dealing with the return of her childhood sweetheart, Joe, who broke her heart.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Will and Sandy are two architects working on a major urban renewal project in the King's Cross section of London. The area is unsafe and not ready for such a project and is best known as a place to pick up prostitutes or buy drugs. Will and Sandy move their offices into a nearby vacant warehouse. Will and his girlfriend Liv have to deal with her behaviorally challenged thirteen year old daughter. At the same time Will has to deal with constant burglaries...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"This documentary exposes the negative impacts of sprawl on the largest U.S. cities and the promise of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) as an alternative. The film explores the characteristics of successful TODs, interviewing experts such as Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, Denver's Planning Director Peter Park, David Dixon of Goody Clancy, Peter Calthorpe of Calthorpe Associates and President and CEO Shelly Poticha of Reconnecting...