26. Editor’s – Media architecture and its impact on people / Text: Cosmina Goagea
30. The Water Plant, Suceava
> The conversion of a former industrial structure into a Center of Urban Culture
Text: Cosmina Goagea
The conversion of the Water Plant into a Center of Urban Culture helps the dissemination of an affirmative and responsible attitude towards the built heritage, and sets a new role which the architects should accept: that of the cultivation of what already exists.
40. Jakub Szczesny: Narrow Gauge
> A house of an artist, as wide as a closet, between blind walls, in Warsaw
44. Nord Architects Copenhagen: A Place for Recovery
A center for cancer patients in Copenhagen
50. DOSSIER: Mei architecten
The work of Dutch office mei is smart and complex. While their buildings immediately attract attention, they also spring from a deep reflection on programming and identity, urban life and the need of communities.
50. Gnome Parking Garage, Almere
> Parking garage and public space in Almere
56. The Four Worlds
An apartment complex in Rotterdam
60. Schiecentrale Phase 4b
> A harbour building in Rotterdam
66. UNA arquitetos: Bold Structure
> Single family house in São Paulo
70. peris+toral.arquitectes: Flexible and Minimal Dwelling
> Social housing for young people in Can Caralleu, Barcelona
74. peris+toral.arquitectes: Context dependent extension
> Can Puiggener’s Civic Centre, in Sabadell, Barcelona
78. Atelier Zündel & Cristea: A Slightly Displaced Stack
> Mixeduse building in Paris (housing retail spaces, a retirement home and private housing)
AZC’s building in Paris is truly metropolitan: multi-use, dense and yet at a human scale.
84. Ene + Ene Arhitectura: An Exercise of Adequacy
> A small building of offices in Bucharest.
88. Vallum: Natural rules
> Swimming pool on the shore of Tineretului Lake in Sovata
Text: Korodi Szabolcs
A fully wooden structure, reversible and adjusted to relief, gives birth to a swimming pool on the shore of Tineretului Lake in Sovata.
94. Andreas Heierle, Cristina Trofin: The wagon-house with seven roofs
> Recovering and re-interpretation of an existing dwelling
About the recovering (and re-interpretation) of a modest existing construction, a traditional typology, a modern material, and the imperfections of building in post-socialist Romania.
102. Urban Report: Performing the Common
> Social and artistic manifestations in the public sphere; Husby district of Stockholm
Text: Cosmin Caciuc, Cosmina Goagea
An art exhibition in the Husby district of Stockholm explores social manifestations in the public sphere and the democratic processes modeling urban nature and the collective identity.
108. Smart Systems
108. The mission
> A project initiated by Eurodite to offer Dutch support to the Romanian cities
Text: Constantin Goagea
116. BMW Welt Experience: We Move People
Text: Cosmina Goagea
118. CBT Mark 1: Cardboard bike
Text: Cosmin Caciuc