Colour Usage Colours are one of the most salient features of any visual viewed by mankind, a property of an object, material, or space. In design, colour does not just…
When the elevator doors open and you step into the world of Silo, you are not visiting another dystopian set; you are entering a skyscraper. Instead of a building serving…
Architecture has its own way of showing emotions and human perception, like a scene in a film. Every scene of a narrow corridor or a symmetrical framing of the façade…
Some movies tell stories, while others create entire universes from scratch, resembling surreal oil paintings stitched together with a sense of madness. Tony McNamara’s “Poor Things,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos,…
“There is no architecture without an epoch translated into space.”*(Marx* – Mies van der Rohe Stand at the entrance to Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute, and one is confronted with a…
Architecture and cinema share a secret: both are about shaping human experience. Architects and designers shape how people move, live, and feel in space; filmmakers shape how we perceive and…
Saltburn: Architecture of Excess What happens when beauty becomes unbearable? Saltburn (2023), directed by Emerald Fennell, is not just a story set inside a mansion; it is a story built…
“There’s always three incarnations of a story: the story that is being told, the listener’s interpretation, and the version the listener retells in the future.” — Tarsem Singh, interview with…
“I am not in danger. I am the danger.” It echoes not only through speech but also through every frame of Breaking Bad. It is not a TV show you…
Bombay (then) has always been an idea, a figure of myth and desire, more than it has ever been a physical construct. Home to Bollywood (Indian Hindi cinema based in…
What if an office could feel like a city? What if a corridor narrated stories, or a workstation inspired unexpected encounters like a street corner café? Ultraconfidentiel considers these to…
Having thoughts on a matter is inherently subjective, especially in the world of design, where there’s rarely a clear right or wrong. But this very subjectivity often leads to sharp…