Colonnade Park

Colonnade Park, the last part of a documentary trilogy about modernist residential buildings inspecting Rome (Corviale, Il Serpentone, 2001) and Warsaw (Behind the Iron Gate, 2009), allows the director Heidrun Holzfeind turn for the first time to the New World through the high-rise Colonnade and two pavilion buildings by Mies van der Rohe in Newark, New Jersey. Built in the 1950s to appeal to middle-class elite, making the living in the center of Newark attractive again, the building has a moving story behind it, which tells, over and above urban developments, of social shifts.