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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+

The social housing factory. Rehabilitation of a textile factory & creation of 46 housing units – Barcelona

The transformation of the warehouse building of the old Fabra & Coats industrial complex in Barcelona is part of the process of reconversion of this 19th and 20th century textile industry neighborhood. The whole complex is part of he “BCN creation factories” network and it will bring to Sant Andreu district more than 28,000 m2 of facilities.

A pause from the city, a background for the city. Z33 – House for contemporary art, design and architecture

At Zeppelin, we are obsessed with going as deep as possible into the fabric of a project. Well, here the architechture, the context and the details are interwoven in such a complex way, the process is so fascinating an clearly exemplary, that we chose to present the project as a succesion of frames. telling a complex story through its details; the close-ups show sketches, poetic representations, plans and details, the four tupes of models (porcelain, ceramic, loom fibers, at 1:10), construction photos and then, the final images. 

MUZEON, Cluj. The story of your Jewish neighbour

This small independent museum starts from a family archive, but speaks of a community, of a city and of fundamental human experiences, and does so by a spatial and auditory experience rather than by classical museum means

Skanderbeg Square, Tirana

In 1989, while the entire East was enthusiastically reforming, two (neo)Stalinist countries were still left in the area. In the meantime, one of them became a EU member, the other one is struggling a bit more. One has just finished, the other one is still busily working on a grand national project, built in the centre of their respective capitals.

Beacon, Boundary Marker, Cocoon, Bricolage. Cultural Center and Auditorium, Plasencia, Spain

From most of the photographs circulated on the Internet, especially at a cursory glance, the Plasencia auditorium appears to have been randomly thrown into a field, in an absurdly peripheral position, yet another of those many self-sufficient objects, planted in the middle of nowhere by egotistic local administrations and architects.

FABER. Independent Cultural and Production Center, Timișoara

FABER is a community made up of people who have been investing trust and energy in Timisoara’s growth, a place whose story revolves around the idea of strategic conservation, where the process, the people and outlining work strategies are more important than the product itself,

Places in a garden. Mânadelucru: Kindergarten near the Patriarchy Hill, Bucharest

The old house in the southern part of the historical center and its extensions shape a complex of rooms, porches, courtyards and terraces. A world for children to explore and to enjoy.

Seven large houses. Igual & Guggenheim: social dwellings in Mühlau, Switzerland

Text : Sancho Igual,Yves Guggenheim
Photo: Radek Brunecky

The neighbourhood was established in the sensitive and historically significant town centre of Mühlau, Switzerland. The open and very detailed development is laid out with seven main buildings that are arranged like inlays in a setting.

Zeppelin #160 (winter_2020-2021)

Edito: The application form, the typewriter and the golden flat

Text, object, photo: Mugur Grosu

In our collective imaginary in Romania, the writer is still associated with the quill and pen. And, late at night, with weary lashes, they will still blow out the light bulb, out of sheer habit. This is no metaphor, those of us living under Communism used to write by candlelight, like bards of old times, because of daily power cuts. Once again because of Communism, here the typewriter is not symbolic for literature but has remained the embodiment of state authorities. During the “Golden Age” of Ceausescu, Decree no. 98 of 28 March 1983, stated that any typewriter had to get an approval from the police (Miliția). (…)

DOSSIER: EXPO
Intro
TEXT Ştefan Ghenciulescu

In‑between
David Chipperfield Architects: James Simon Gallery, Museum Island, Berlin

Project: David Chipperfield Architects
Text: Lorena Brează
Photo: Laurian Ghiniţoiu

Enough is Enough
Responsibility for Real: 2020 Timişoara Architecture Biennial

Text: Anca Cioarec, Brînduşa Tudor,Raluca Rusu, Alexandru Ciobotă
Photo: Bianca Azap, Dan Purice

The Romanian Museum of Collectivization

Text: Cosmina Goagea
Photo: Andrei Mărgulescu

Pocket Interiors.
A Contemporary Telematic Novel

Project: Zeppelin Design
Text: Constantin Goagea
Photo: Andrei Mărgulescu

The Water Castle and The Tower of Arts in Turnu Severin

Project: Zeppelin Design
Text: Constantin Goagea
Photo: Andrei Mărgulescu

URANUS NOW

Project & Text: URANUS NOW team
Photo: Tudor Constantinescu, Vlad Dudu, Andrei Bîrsan, URANU NOW team

A Storehouse with a View
The Mihai Oroveanu Archive at the Salonul de proiecte
TEXT Salonul de proiecte, skaarchitects –Kalliopi Dimou, Sorin Istudor

The Incredible and Sad Tale of a Lonely Contessa and Her House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate
TEXT Daniel Tudor Munteanu, Davide Tommaso Ferrando

From Near to Far
Visual Cartographies of the 2 Mai and Vama Veche Space
TEXT Iuliana Dumitru, Alex Axinte

ZOOM

The Urban Machine
MEETT Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Centre
TEXT OMA

The Electra Factory, Iaşi

Text:Alexandra Berdan
Photo: Katerina Nedelcu, Alexandra Berdan, Ancuţa Costandache

The Terminal as a Tool for Urbanity
Bus Terminal, Budaörs

Project: Intramuros
Text: Lorena Brează

The Light New Top
GV51 Penthouse Apartments, Belgrade

Project & Text: Studio ENND
Photo: Relja Ivanic

Urbanizing the Swiss Periphery
Igual Guggenheim Architects: 2 Collective Housing Projects

Project & Text: Sancho Igual, Yves Guggenheim
Photo: Radek Brunecky (Wetzikon), Beat Bühler (Küsnacht)

FABER. Independent Cultural Center, Timişoara
Interview with Oana Simionescu and Sergiu Sabău

Reporter: Lorena Brează
Photo: Farkas Pataki

Daydreaming

Text:Ştefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Radu Abraham, Ioana Sisea

Material‑scapes

Text: Sandra Demetrescu
Photo: Andrei Mateescu

Places in a Garden
Mânadelucru: Kindergarten in Bucharest

Text: Dorin Ştefan Adam, Lorena Brează
Photo: Vlad Pătru

The Meaning of Sculpture
Objects, Spaces and Learning at Kunsthalle Bega

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