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(A) The night image of the Lech ski resort has been improved by a new LED lighting concept. Zumtobel in cooperation with Dieter Bartenbach, the consultant specialist, has developed a customized outdoor illumination solution, providing a new image both to the town of Lech, and to the river bearing the same name. A specially-created control system adjusts the light levels depending on the time of day or night, for lighting conditions to be perfect at any time.

Project: RoundRobin studio
Text: Anca Mihalache
Photo: Radu Malașincu

A bit of history

The main part of original building was built in around 1825, as the Haberdashers’ Almshouses. Later in the 19c the building was used as a school, and in 1898 this was purchased by the London County Council for use as Shoreditch Technical Institute.

Project: Mount Fuji Architecture Studio
Text: Masahiro Harada
Foto: Mitsumasa Fujitsuka & Mount Fuji Architects Studio

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Photo: Cosmin Dragomir

Romania suffers from a terrible lack of museums. Not only are there few museums made, if any; more than 100 museums or memorial houses have disappeared over the twenty-something years, especially through retrocessions (and out of the authorities’ lack of interest in purchasing them). Under these conditions, a new museum, especially a museum of modern and contemporary art, is an event. Should true architecture also show up there, so much the better.

Text: Dorin Ștefan Adam, Elena Viziteu
Photo: Laurian Ghinițoiu

Most tourists and Alba Iulia locals taking a stroll through the magnificent Vauban citadel are happy with the main public spaces – plazas and streets. Few of them realise that the place is much richer and much more complex – a sophisticated and labyrinthine system of spaces, with wide arched halls within the walls, passages leading to places that are undisclosed on a first walk.

Text: Mihai Duțescu
Foto: Andrei Mărgulescu, Mihai Duțescu
Plans: survey by the students of the atelier of Prof. Mircea Ochinciuc, 3rd year, Ion Mincu University, Bucharest, 2009-2010; assistants: Melania Dulămea, Mihia Duțescu, Adrian Moleavin

Edito: Cars over School
Text & photo: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

18. Dossier:
Houses with Public

14. Intro
Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

18.The Headquarters of the OAR Bucharest Branch

44. (Also) Facing the Canal
Medical clinic in Cluj

58. The Good Compromise
Medeuropa Clinic, Constanţa

72. Our Lord in the Attic
The hidden church of Amsterdam

82. The Museum of Recent Art
Black House in Uptown Bucharest

Text: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

The recently-inaugurated Museum of Recent Art has aroused much enthusiasm, and, one needs to say, also many controversies. This is a private museum, modest in size, but with strong ambitions, including architectural ones. The ‘recent’ part first refers to the collection’s temporal coverage: Romanian art, since the post-Stalinist period until today. International art is however also present, mainly through temporary exhibitions. The museum is much more open and accessible than most old-type museums in Romania, and includes a library, as well as other spaces for culture and the city.

96. Visiting a Clever, Cheerful Man. The “Anton Pann” Memorial House in Bucharest

Proiect: Zeppelin
Text: Constantin Goagea

Old Bucharest remains visible to this day in the irregularity of many streets and in the architectural typology of some houses. Next to the Stelian-Lucaci church, somewhere close to Calea Călărași, there lies one of those pieces of town where one can still find, in the path of streets and property limits, the 19th-century specific urban model: small houses, showing off plaster decorations, not aligned to the street, built on garden plots, whose green can be seen from the pavement, reminiscent of what used to be the old neighbrorhoods, namely a mixture of countryside and town.

Anton Pann’s house in the Lucaci parish, that we are speaking of, on the street which now bears his name (it used to be Bull’s Street), is a small and simple house itself, modestly decorated, with an intimate courtyard; yet different from the neighbouring ones, as Anton Pann would move his printing shop here, a rather improvised one, but in which he managed to print his most important works.

108. Apartment Parties
Before and (a little) after 1989

114. ZOOM

116. Cultural Centre and Auditorium
The Politehnica University, Bucharest

134. AIRBNB Dwelling in a Rationalist Block of Flats, Bucharest

138. Closed and Quiet

P31. House, Moșniţa Nouă

146. Roman Catholic Parish, Orșova, 1976
Architect Hans Fackelmann, sculptor Péter Jecza, painter Gabriel Popa

164. The Long House of Crucea

178. Bucharest‑South
The Other City. Places and Stories from Bucharest‑South

198 – 224: PLANS

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.

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

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