N95, Kendrick Lamar |\u00a0image via YouTube<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In Jalousie, Belgian pop singer Ang\u00e8le dances through the futuristic, wave-like halls and circular corridors, and plush, confined interiors of Oscar Niemeyer\u2019s French Communist Party Headquarters in Paris. Completed in 1971, the building is one of Niemeyer\u2019s few European projects and bears his unmistakable touch with sweeping curves, stark concrete forms, and sensual, organic geometries that break from the rigidity of traditional office architecture. Most iconic is the domed subterranean meeting hall, an otherworldly, white sculptural void, which appears in the video as a stage of mirrored movement.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Niemeyer, a lifelong communist and master of Bras\u00edlia\u2019s monumental language, envisioned the building as a democratic space with undulating surfaces that seem to reject hierarchy altogether. Niemeyer\u2019s belief in democratic openness is given a surreal, almost pop twist, reinforcing the song and video\u2019s themes of emotional duplicity and reflection.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Jalousie, Ang\u00e8le | image via YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n the dome of Espace Niemeyer | image via Espace Niemeyer<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Harry Styles\u2019 As It Was is choreographed across several memorable London locations including the Royal Horticultural Halls and the London Zoo\u2019s former penguin pool. A somewhat melancholic reflection on change, loss, and love, earlier scenes depict the singer walking across an endlessly looping platform before he runs out through the concrete expanse of the Barbican Centre. It is one of London\u2019s most iconic examples of Brutalist architecture, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and completed in the early 1980s atop a post-war bomb site to form a self-contained neighborhood with cultural and residential facilities.<\/p>\n As It Was, Harry Styles | image via YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Intriguing in both scale and form, the Barbican appears almost fortress-like \u2014 its exposed concrete surfaces, elevated walkways, and maze-like structure forming a complex and imposing environment in central London. The design draws on Le Corbusier\u2019s modernist ideals, layered with Roman, Mediterranean, and Scandinavian references, and was envisioned as a hopeful post-war symbol of renewal. Its visual austerity seems to mirror the sentimental undercurrents of As It Was, a song that sounds upbeat but carries a sense of longing. Styles\u2019 barefoot sprint through the Barbican in the final moments, gleefully smiling, in this sense reads as an ambiguous release of maybe joy, or maybe acceptance.<\/p>\n Barbican Sculpture Court | image by Max Colson, via Barbican<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The XX\u2019s I Dare You is as much a love letter to Los Angeles as it is a moody portrait of youth, filmed across two iconic houses tied to Southern California\u2019s modernist history. The first is the Sowden House, designed in 1926 by Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright. Known for its Mayan Revival style, the house is characterized by a dramatic geometry, with its facade of textile blocks with jagged edges, a central courtyard framed by theatrical colonnades, and interiors saturated with shadow and mystique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I Dare You, The XX | image via YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n the Sowden House by Frank Lloyd Wright | image via The Sowden House<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Equally striking is the Rainbow House<\/strong> <\/a>by John Lautner, a longtime apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright and a major figure of expressive mid-century design. The house\u2019s name comes from its sweeping rainbow-shaped roofline and the vivid, multicolored glass panels that throw colored light across the interiors. Both locations serve as cinematic vessels in a nostalgic haze, the cinematography\u2019s emotional undertones bridging minimalism and theatrical modernism through architectural design.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I Dare You, The XX | image via YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n image \u00a9\u00a0Aaron Kirman<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Shot almost entirely at Arcosanti, Outside by Injury Reserve captures a posthuman eeriness that echoes the equally evocative and unconventional track. Designed by Paolo Soleri in the 1970s as a desert utopia, Arcosanti is a hand-built experimental micro-city that fuses architecture with ecology, its domes, vaults, and amphitheaters forming a strange harmony with the Arizona desert.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In the video, wide tracking shots and static frames highlight the vastness and emptiness of the complex, inside and out, built largely from poured concrete. In the video, the camera lingers on these monumental yet half-finished forms, such as vaulted corridors, sunlit terraces, exposed rebar, revealing a place caught between utopian ambition and gradual decay.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Outside, Injury Reserve | image via YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n the amphitheater at Arcosanti by Paolo Soleri | image by Jessica Jameson Photo, via The Cosanti Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Solange\u2019s Cranes in the Sky is filmed across many scenic landscapes in the American Southwest, but one of its most unforgettable settings is Robert Bruno\u2019s Steel House in Ransom Canyon, Texas. The artist appears atop its almost alien form as a small silhouette towards the end of the video, coinciding with the song\u2019s emotional release. Perched on a cliff like a rusted spaceship, the house is made entirely of welded steel (around 110 tons of it), bent, sculpted, and slowly assembled by Bruno over more than three decades until his death in 2008. Part sculpture, part home, the structure features bulbous forms, curving tunnels, and oddly intimate window openings that frame panoramic views of the canyon below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Cranes in the Sky, Solange<\/a> | image via YouTube<\/p>\n Steel House by Robert Bruno<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The post architectural icons in music: from harry styles at barbican to bad bunny & breuer\u2019s brutalism<\/a> appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marcel Breuer\u2019s Meister Hall stages bad bunny\u2019s nuevayol video \u00a0 In Bad Bunny\u2019s recently released NUEVAYoL music video, the Puerto Rican artist stages a festive quincea\u00f1era at one of New York City\u2019s Brutalist icons: Marcel … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nJalousie by Ang\u00e8le at Oscar Niemeyer\u2019s french communist party headquarters in paris<\/h2>\n
As It Was by harry styles at london\u2019s Barbican center<\/h2>\n
I Dare you by the xx at lloyd wright\u2019s Sowden House and john lautner\u2019s rainbow house<\/h2>\n
Outside by Injury Reserve at Paolo Soleri\u2019s Acrosanti in arizona<\/h2>\n
Cranes in the sky by solange at robert bruno\u2019s Steel House, texas<\/h2>\n