Of Concrete and Spirit: The Monumentality of The Brutist

By eMe Alonso

1-minute read. There are films that are simply projected on a screen. And then there are others —like Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist— that are inhabited, like a bare building facing winter. This is not a film: it’s a manifesto with tectonic ambition. In an age of liquid cinema, Corbet dares to pour concrete. Adrien Brody…

The Church Without Shadows: Where Light Becomes a Temple

By eMe Alonso

Reading time: 1 minute. In Chengdu, China, the Church Without Shadows — a creation by Shanghai Dachuan Architects — redefines the sacred with an almost ethereal structure made of thousands of white aluminum beams. Completed in just two months in 2019, this translucent church casts no shadows: light passes through it, inhabits it, and transforms…