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The Centre for Electronic Industry (as the clients named it) or the Electra factory, as many call it, brings together manufacturing, office, technical and representation spaces, all harmonized within an assembly of three industrial halls. The altogether 11,000 sq. m. are built within the Miroslava Industrial Park in the Iași County, an area that will rapidly develop over the next years.

An articulation between the city and the Museum Island, between the water and the urban fabric, between the Neues Museum and the Pergamon Museum, between public space and the one for the culture, between tradition and today’s technology and culture.

The design for a coffee shop & ice cream parlor brings to front a woioonderful Art-Deco building.

Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Alex Sacalu, Corvin Cristian

14 years ago, in issue 52 of our magazine, we published a dossier dedicated to one of themost inventive and bold architectural offices in the world. Curated with the help of Oana Radeș ( then a member of the bureau, now a partner at Shift Architecture Urbanism), that dossier is still one of our most important materials.

It might sound a little unprofessional, but we simply couldn’t come up with a single umbrella term for “collective apartment buildings with a reduced number of housing units”. The urban villa comes closest to the subject matter, but for many people the urban villa is quintessentially a detached building, usually surrounded by its own piece of land. There is also the Italian version – palazzina, which actually also means “small block” (specifically, the apartment building is a palazzo in Italian).

Edito: They cleaned it up
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

In Romanian society, one of the most common (and terrible) value confusions is, I believe, the one between beautiful, new or in good condition, on the one hand, vs. ugly, old, in poor condition, on the other. And it primarily shows when talking about architecture and the city. The reasons are many – from lacking visual education to our general frustrations or the uncertain relationship with the past, which we’d rather have mythically, than revealed through tangible traces. We are a conservative society (in some respects, even ultra-conservative), but one which does not like to conserve. The old is suspicious. That is, the actual old, while the new in the faux old, fake traditional style, is in great demand. (…)

DOSSIER
Small Blocks of Flats

Intro
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

Calderon 80 Residence
Bucharest

Project: ADN BA

Urban Infill
Enric Rojo Arquitectura: PIC—Apartment Building, Badalona

Prefab Story
FAR Architects: Wohnregal, Berlin

Wood is for Apartment Buildings
MARS architectes: An Environmentally Conscious Apartment Block in Paris

Monolith and Human Scale
SA43: Apartment Building, Budapest

Taming
Melon Design Studio: Remodelling a Young Housing Block in Bucharest

At the Crossing
Graphic Studio: Apartment Building on Răsuri Street

House in Red Concrete
Lillehammer

DOSSIER
MVRDV

Intro
Curators: Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Miruna Dunu

Every Project Becomes a Prototype for Pushing Boundaries
A Discussion with Nathalie de Vries

Bałtyk Tower
Poznań

Bjørvika Barcode and DNB House
Oslo

WERK12
München

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam

Valley
Amsterdam

Concordia Design
Wrocław

ROCKmagneten
Roskilde, Danemarca

Tainan Spring
Taiwan

Expo Pavilion 2.0
A New Life

Palais du Commerce
Rennes

The Pyramid of Tirana

NEXT: Access to Tooling
Extensions, Hacks and Speculations
Text: Leo Stuckhardt, MVRDV NEXT

About and for Romanian Architecture
Text; Jan Knikker & Miruna Dunu

PLANS

In Romanian society, one of the most common (and terrible) value confusions is, I believe, the one between beautiful, new or in good condition, on the one hand, vs. ugly, old, in poor condition, on the other. And it primarily shows when talking about architecture and the city.

Excellently located in the “old” sector of the former Carol Street—the commercial street of the once thriving market town of Mizil—across the street from the high school, the house is a reinterpretation of the good old “train car house” type. An ample eave is added on one side of the house, framed by two rounded gables.

In 2019, Kunsthalle Bega initiated the programme BEGA ARTPRIZE, the only curatorial prize in Romania which is awarded annualy, following consultations with a specialised jury, to a curator under the age of 40. The first laureate of the prize was Anca Verona Mihuleț, who over the last two years has been preparing a complex exhibition project dedicated to the cumulus of technologic and artistic mechanisms that validate our perception about the future

Zeppelin Design & more @ Romanian Design Week 2020

Text: Constantin Goagea
Photos: Andrei Mărgulescu
Curatorial concept: Romanian Design Week and Zeppelin Design
Exhibition design: Zeppelin Design+Ping Pong winners+