The quality of a country’s architecture essentially depends on that of the public architecture. In Romania, priorities are completely different, with public commisions designed to also achieve actual architecture being extremely few
The quality of a country’s architecture essentially depends on that of the public architecture. In Romania, priorities are completely different, with public commisions designed to also achieve actual architecture being extremely few
Text, photo: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
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Started in the autumn of 2019, by the initiative of a group of history fans and entrepreneurs in the village of Tămășeni (Neamț County, Romania) the museum quickly became a reality, and its exhibition opened in the first three rooms a year later.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Vlad Pătru, Sabin Prodan
As in all Romanian large cities (and many of smaller ones), buildings have boomed in Brasov since 2000. Its particular situation has led to some very varied types of increase: limited in the historical centre, extensive on the outskirts
SPEED is an architectural practice based in Oslo, founded in 2020 by Espen Robstad Heggertveit and Eirik Stokke, after receiving the DOGA Newcomer award. The acronym stands for Section, Plan, Elevation, Extrusion, Diagram
This is a story of cooperation and patience, of team and trust, all started from an ambitious idea. The sunny house was born out of a beautiful dream – a house that uses the sun, a house built of wood, in the midst of an edible garden.
Coordinators: Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Cătălina Frâncu
Intro:
We have become rather accustomed to thinking of territory in terms of clear categories: city/village/nature, industry/agriculture/services, built/unbuilt, work/living etc.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: SCOB
The adjoining photo shows one of the projects in the dossier of the summer issue of Zeppelin magazine no.166. To be honest, it doesn’t look much like architecture. In fact, it looks like something that can be a corner of nature, or a greenfield, or some generic greenery, rather self-sown.
This is the story of a house built in 1900 to a Bucharest of different flavours and different values. All this time, the house has been a silent witness, it has navigated history almost anonymously, it saw two wars, a few different generations and regimes, earthquakes and city transformations.
A pro-bono project of the prestigious Swedish architecture and design office Claesson Koivisto Rune
Text: Daniel Tudor Munteanu
Photo: Alik Usik
The residential building in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona) is for now the largest building in Spain with a Wooden Structure. It houses 85 dwellings on five floors and used a total of 8,300 m2 of 0km wood1 from the forests of the Basque Country.