MFA, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

 

Festival International du Film sur l'Art

 

Building the Gherkin

 

• Thu, Mar 29, 04:00PM
  
• Sun, Apr 1, 10:30PM
  
• Wed, Apr 4, 06:15PM
• Sat, Apr 14, 10:30PM

 

 

Building the Gherkin by Mirjam von Arx (Switzerland, 2005, 89 min.) Just one month after the attacks on 9/11, the first steel beam of a new tower is erected in London even as people begin to question whether it is now wise to build an iconic building in the midst of the city's financial district, on a site that has been bombed before. The 40-story steel and glass tower sparks further controversy in its shape alone. Lord Norman Foster—one of Britain's most visionary architects, and architect of The New MFA—calls his design "radical—socially, technically, architecturally, and spatially." So radical that it is immediately nicknamed "the erotic gherkin." Can one building transform an architect's career, a company's global image, and the skyline of one of the world's greatest cities?

 

MFA members, seniors, and students $6; general admission $7

 

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