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Kicking off today, the Toronto International Film Festival boasts a stellar movie lineup. Here are seven films that provide a visual feast – as well as a captivating storyline – for lovers of design and architecture.

It’s known as “Hollywood North” for its ability to stand in for a variety of locations, but rarely does Toronto get to play itself. In celebration of our 30th anniversary, we’ve rounded up 10 films from the past 30 years in which Azure’s hometown – and its unique architecture and streetscapes – gets a starring role.

Robert Redford aims his lens at Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute and Wim Wenders films inside the Berlin Philharmonie in this series of six documentaries that explores iconic buildings, showing at Toronto’s TIFF Lightbox from December 19.

A book on city (and suburb) building, a film on how Frank Gehry and Yves Béhar handle design briefs, and a monograph on German designer Konstantin Grcic.

His new home for the Pathé Foundation, squeezed into a courtyard between buildings, takes the shape of a dynamic parasite in an aluminum coil.

Available on Netflix – as well as in theatres in New York and Los Angeles – the feature-length documentary Print the Legend depicts the larger-than-life characters behind the consumer 3D printing phenomenon.

Katerina Cizek’s new interactive documentary sheds a skeptical light on the urban icon.

Happy Hallowe’en! Azure presents a roundup of 10 skyscrapers and high rises that take a starring role in scenes of horror and suspense.

Fans of suspense know that atmosphere is everything. Just in time for Halloween, Azure has gathered the top 10 modernist houses that serve as the sinister backdrop for thrills and chills on film.

From April 26 to May 6, Hot Docs in Toronto features a massive selection of films and documentaries that include glimpses into the lives of prolific artists and explorations of major urban centres. Here are five must-sees, including a doc about Ai Weiwei and another on Detroit.