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Edito: Cars over School

Text & photos by Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Let’s say you have an overcrowded school (grades 1 to 12), with limited space for games and sports in two small schoolyards. How do you go about it? Easy: You convert the front schoolyard into a teachers’ parking lot. And you do it properly, neatly marking the parking places with paint. The children can go on playing there, you don’t forbid it, but they will have to adapt their games, squeezing between the cars.

A Constant Gardener. Laura Paraschiv – Circa 1703-3701 & Mà Bistro

Laura Paraschiv is an architect. She collects objects and cultivates them in Circa 1703-3701 (Precinct 1703-3701), the place in Bucharest where you can find unique pieces of design from all ages.

Report: Dorothee Hasnas
Photo: Cătălin Georgescu, Ioana Pârvan

Zeppelin #151

 

14. Edito: How many citizens per square metre?
Text: Cosmina Goagea

18. DOSSIER: At the Margin

20. Intro
Consolidation, acupuncture, experiment
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

 

28. 3rd Generation Infrastructure
Michi no eki—Roadside Station and community building in Mashiko, Japan

 

44. Consolidating the Margin
Protected workshops in the former mess hall of the Technical School of Aviation, Mediaș

 

56. The Barn for All
The riding stables of Sânsimion

 

72. Positive‑Negative
Zumárraga Interpretation Center for La Antigua Chapel

 

85. Interview with Bogdan Pandele, real estate developer in Bucharest

88. Republic of Architects
Interventions and discussions about living in the periphery

 

98. Densifying the Margins
Patio house, Bucureștii Noi neighborhood

 

104. In the Countryside, Now
Dwelling in the Ordoreanu village

108. Urbanity at the Periphery
Individual housing development, Voluntari

 

122. Gated communities at the periphery of Bucharest. A domestic landscape
Text: Andreea Matache

 

130. South of South
A look beyond the Bucharest beltway
Text: Mihai Duţescu

 

140. Urbanizing the Periphery
Mahalas, suburbs and 1811 New York

 

154. So That It Holds
Text: Cosmin O. Gălăţianu

 

158. Meșteshukar Butiq
From craft to modern design and back
Text: Dorothee Hasnas

 

166. ZOOM

168. Play Taken Seriously
The American Kindergarten, Bucharest
Text: Andrei Mărgulescu

 

180. Attempts, Failures, Trials and Errors
An attempt at design reconstruction
Text: Ioana Popescu & Tincuţa Heinzel

188. Interview with Josep Congost, Design director at Roca Design Center & Innovation Lab

192. Alt
A Raw typeface
Text: Radu Manelici

198 – 224. PLAN
A collection of plans

Zeppelin #150

 

8. Edito: What is a pink hippopomingo?
Text: Mugur Grosu

10. DOSSIER: The Other Architects

18. Intro
The Other Architects: The Not‑Only‑Architects and the Non‑architects Who Make Architecture
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

 

26. Architects of Dreams
Around the Pink Floyd. Their Mortal Remains exhibition
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

 

34. Vlad Bina: Design for a Virtual World. And then back

 

50. Laura Paraschiv. The Constant Gardener
REPORTER: Dorothee Hasnas

 

60. Alexandria, Pink Floyd, architecture, Bucharest, literature
Text: Mihai Duțescu

 

64. Jack‑of‑All‑Trades and the Right Price
A selfie with Dorothee Hasnas, architect and cultural manager

 

69. Mihai Coliban: Once an Architect, Always an Architect

 

72. Oana Bogdan: I’m More of an Architect Now Than I Was Before

 

76. Gellu Naum’s Comana House
Text: Mihai Duțescu

 

84. Vienna 1928—Wittgenstein House
Architecture as Reflection
Text: Horia Marinescu

 

94. The Other Architect—an Archive of the Natural
Homage to my grandfather, Antonie Beșliu
Text: Alexandru Cristian Beșliu

98. ZOOM

100. Two Gardens, One Artist, One Studio
Text: DAAA

 

108. Junya Ishigami
An exhibition and a pavilion
Text: Corina Laza, Junya Ishigami

 

138. Firemen Museum, Fire Prevention Center BCN
Renovation of the Old Poble Sec Fire Station
Text: José Miguel Roldán, Merce Berengué

 

152. Glory and Humility
Restauration of the Craiova Branch Headquarters of the National Bank of Romania
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

 

160. Bolșoi, Garage, Moscova
Text: Constantin Goagea

 

166. Layers Instead of Boxes and Objects
Apartament AP_10MS, București
Text: Ștefan Păvăluță

 

174. Courtyard Under a Tree
Loft transformation in a listed building, London
Text: Anca Mihalache

 

182. 2 BM
Text: Justin Baroncea

 

190. From Model‑House to the Ideal Villa
The winning project of the „Imagine Dumbrava Vlăsiei” competition
Text: Cosmin Georgescu, Alexandru Cristian Beșliu, Laura Cristea, Cosmin O. Gălățianu, Horia Munteanu

 

194 – 224. PLAN
A collection of plans

Zeppelin #149

Zeppelin update

We worked on our bookazine formula. It’s even more of a book than before, yet still connected, fresh and rich, as a magazine should be.
The format is just a bit smaller, just to better fit in a casual bag, be lighter and also easier to read in bed or at your desk, even if it will have more pages now, 224!

The dossier rules: it takes about two thirds of the issue and aims to become a reference for the chosen subject.

There are even more large photos and almost only original texts, a lot of research and analysis, but also poetry and quite different viewpoints.

Orientation will be easier as well as choosing how deep you want to go in any material. That’s mainly because we moved all technical drawings—plans and details—in a separate section. But cross‑references between this drawing part and the main article are highly visible. Articles thus become more accessible, without losing their depth and professional elements.

Starting from now, an even more serious and merry publication. And one with the things that remain.

8. Edito: Starts by 2 bits per second at 1800, but ends by a hologram featuring 3 strange buildings
TEXT: Constantin Goagea

10. DOSSIER: Modern?

 

14. Intro
On Continuity
TEXT: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

26. Intro Uwe Schröder
TEXT: Cosmin O. Gălăţianu

 

28. Galerie und Atelierhaus, Bonn

 

36. Haus Hundertacht, Bonn

 

44. Prager Höfe, Bonn

 

52. Intro Tony Fretton
TEXT: Alexandru Cristian Beşliu

 

54. Reconciliation: Commercial and Housing Complex, Tietgens Grund, Frederiksstaden, Copenhaga

 

64. Westkaai Towers 5 & 6

 

70. Paolo Zermani. Intro: „Cio che dura poco non e architettura.”
TEXT: Alexandru Cristian Beşliu

72. The Cemetery of Sansepolcro

 

80. Putting Things in Place.
Interventions in Sacred Spaces

 

90. The Temple‑Crematorium

 

98. The Restoration and Reconstruction of the Novara Castle

 

106. Intro Sergison Bates
TEXT: Cosmin O. Gălăţianu

108. Social housing and crèche, Geneva, Switzerland

 

116. Care Home

 

126. Garden Building

 

132. Visualising Evolution
Ştefan Davidovici

 

142. A New Form of Beauty
Or about enlightened conservatism
TEXT: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

143. To Washington
TEXT: GM Cantacuzino

 

152. Extension of the “Partium” ChristianUniversity of Oradea
Atelier FKM

 

164. ZOOM

166. A Moment’s Joy
Holiday Housing, Moltenia
Anca Mihaela Constantin, Ionuţ Constantin

 

178. Collective Authorship
Private histories of public architecture

182. Meetings
An Installation within the walls of the Alba Iulia Citadel
Dorin Ştefan Adam, Elena Viziteu

 

188. Ubikubi—The Latest Collection

192 – 224. PLAN
A collection of plans

 

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