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You could argue that the “West Coast modern” houses designed by architects like Fred Hollingsworth and Ron Thom in the 1950s and ’60s are the most beautiful buildings ever built in B.C.
Trent Rodney certainly would. The 32-year-old has a passion for West Coast modern architecture, a passion he’s turned into a thriving real estate business.
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Rodney and his cohorts, Jason Choi and Karim Bhatia, specialize in selling West Coast modern homes, built from 1945 right up to today. Their pitch is they’re selling architecture, not just real estate.
Architecture and design streaming platform screens these highlights this month.
Louis Kahn’s Tiger City (113 mins)
Bangladesh / USA 2019 (Available from Feb 1)
Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of Louis Kahn to discover how the famed American architect built a daringly modern and monumental parliamentary complex in war-torn Bangladesh. This very personal fourteen-country odyssey delves into Bangladesh’s quest for democracy, how Kahn brilliantly wove together Eastern and Western forms, and the power of great architecture to embody the highest ideals.
Coast Modern – (56mins)
USA/ Canada 2012 (Available from Feb 8)
Travelling along the Pacific North West coastline from LA to Vancouver, the film showcases the pioneers of West Coast Modernist Architecture, and the homes that have become their legacies. Stepping inside the most inspired dwellings on the west coast, we feel how the light and space of a classic Modernist home can work in collabo