VIDEO PRESHOW #5 - Videos featuring buildings from World Expos

There are very few buildings that remain from the World Fairs and Expos of the past. There are even fewer that are important to architects. This week's video preshows featured two such buildings.

On Monday we saw Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 in Leonard Cohen's video called "In My Secret Life."

You will recall that Moshe Safdie designed this building as a thesis project while he was still a student at McGill University in Montreal. To learn more about it check out these links:
Arch Daily Classics: Habitat '67
Great Buildings Online: Really good drawings, pix, and VIDEOS of the apartments
Dwell Magazine: A renovated flat

Another building remaining from the 1967 World Expo in Montreal is the United States Pavilion designed by Buckminster Fuller.

To learn more about "Bucky" Fuller and his career's work, start here.

We also saw two videos that contained the Eiffel Tower.  The Eiffel Tower was designed in 1889 for the the Paris World Fair by Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, two engineers who worked for the Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel. It continues to be the tallest structure in France

 ...and one of the most mythologized objects in the world.

Here's the video by Kendrick Lamar featuring the tower. (Thank you Jason Levin)

...and here's another slightly less explicit one by the Bloodhound Gang.