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17. Editor’s: Mourning, hope, angst

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

19.  Exhibit Arhitectura: Halve and Spin  

>   House in a neighborhood in Brașov

28.  LAMA Arhitectura:  Living in a Chest

> House in a modest neighborhood in Bucharest

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

35.  Klaus Birthler: Vultur House, Reghin

 >   Energy efficient home in Mureș county

40.  FCC Arquitectura + Paulo Lobo:  Experience for All Senses

>  Wine experience hotel in Portugal

45.  Program & place. Three architecture diplomas at the Ion Mincu University, Bucharest

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

• Silviu Papuc: Collective living in the city center. Activating a disused office building

• Georgiana Grigore: Sluice and socio-cultural services at Colentina’s western lakes, Bucharest

• Ștefan Păvăluţă: Integrated touristic system around the medieval fortress of Enisala, Dobrogea region.

54.  MAR.S Architects:  Transparency and Privacy

>  Bistro in Prague

56.  DDAANN & Mjolk:  Space for Visitors and Passion for Cycling

>  A guest apartment in Prague

60.  Point 4 & Pandapanda:  AP_AVP Apartment: Shoes, Cups and Spices

>  Interior design for a dwelling in an apartment building from the socialist period in Bucharest.

Text: Justin Baroncea

64. Mânadelucru:  A Good Background

>  Renovation and refurbishment of  Alukönigstahl showroom in Bucharest

68. Halele Carol

• 68.  Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects:  From Steel to Kimonos

> Converting a former industrial building into an exhibi­tion space with atelier for an artist

74.  The Cloud Collective:  New Façade and Adaptation: First School, then Mosque

>  Mevlana Mosque from Amsterdam

77. Connected

• 78.  A Call to Action: Better Quality, Safer, Healthier, more Affordable and Greener Homes

> The third edition of a series of articles to provide understand­ing about an important trend in Romania 

Text: Steven Borncamp – CEO Romania Green Building Council

81. Design & More

• 82. Damian Alexandru: Small Interventions: Variable Transparency and Reuse

> A fence in Timișoara and a transformable stool

85. dekleva gregorič architects: (un)curtain office

> System of flexible spatial partitioning for a working environment in Ljubljana

• 90. Kengo Kuma: Yure

     >  Urban installation at Paris

     Text: Corina Laza

• 94.  presledek.:  Black Thread on Brass Profile

     > Exhibition at National Museum of Slovenia Ljubljana

17. Editor’s: Discreet monuments

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

28.  Justin Baroncea, Iulia Vasile: A Coat Somewhere in a Garden

>   A house in Breaza village

30.  SYAA:  Building on the Verge

> Boarding house in Chilia Veche – the Danube Delta

Text: Andrei Mărgulescu

35.  Henrik Lunden – The Common Office: W Club Charles de Gaulle

 >   Workout space in Bucharest

Text:  Cosmin Caciuc

37.  Stardust Architects: Scene from Behind the Scene

>  Administrative annex inside an opera building

41.  Ideogram Studio: M1. Workshop

>  Internal working space for the creation of wines at Murfatlar

45.  Graphic Studio: One Plot, Three Houses

>  Five levels block of flats in Bucharest

48. Brenac + Gonzalez: 3 objects, One Urban Block

>  Two blocks of flats and a pastoral Catholic building

64. Artre Studio: Pragmatism, Diversity and Appeal to Modernism

>  Residenz project in Chitila

Text:  Ignaz S. Schmidt, Dragoș Lungulescu, Cosmin Caciuc

70. Andrei Comănac:  True Luxury is Green

>  Amber Gardens – residential complex based on bioclimatic principles  in  Otopeni–Tunari

Text: Alesonor

75. Connected

      76.  The Portrait of a House

> Costa-Foru house and the story “Beyond the Façade”

Text: Yasmin Asan

80.  Reducing Mortgage Default Risk with Greener Homes

> The second episode of a series of articles to provide understand­ing about an important trend in Romania 

Text: Steven Borncamp – CEO Romania Green Building Council

84. Halele Carol

     84. Historical Allotment and Renewed Urban Identity

> Urban research and a unique exhibition at the Railroad Museum (CFR) in Bucharest  

Text: Andrei-Răzvan Voinea, Andreea-Livia Ivanovici

89. Design & More

     90. Post City

> This year’s edition of Ars Elecronica in Linz looked at new meanings of urban life

Text: Constantin Goagea

 4. The parasite socks project at 56th Venice Biennale
Text & proiect: Jean-Lorin Sterian

19. Editors: The Good policy of the European Architecture Awards
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

20. Dossier: Old is the New New
 > 3 winners of the last edition of the AADIPA European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention

• 22. Paredes Pedrosa Architects: Public Library in Ceuta

• 28. SAMI-arquitectos: E/C House

• 34. Isabel Aguirre de Urcola & Celestino García Braña: Between Ruin and Landscape. The Caaveiro Monastery

38. Tecto Arhitectura: 4E House
> Passive house made of brick on nZEB principles  at the initiative of Wienerberger in Corbeanca village, Ilfov County

44. Westfourth Architecture: Adapting
> The apartment building in the center of Bucharest adapts to the historic fabric and to a difficult plot, but also to economical evolutions: it was designed before the crisis, the operation was interrupted for several years, only to restart with a smaller budget but also the requirement to diminish the size of all apartments while dou¬bleing their number, within the same volume and basic plan.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

59. Andrei Eugen Lakatos: Funeral Chapel
 > A  discreet building in a small Protestant cemetary in Voluntari, near Bucharest

52. Synthesis Architecture: Behind the Blocks of Flats, a Bigger House  
>  The urban villa is placed on a free plot in the middle of a socialist neighbourhood right beyond the inner city ring of Bucharest emphasizes both individuality and variation. All apartments are different and the decorative pannels, all starting from the same interpretated vernacular ornament become parapets or cover the ines¬capable exterior air conditioning units that are cleverly integrated into the wall.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

57. Triptyque Architecture & Philippe Starck:  TOG Flagship store, São Paulo
>  A mixed use place of sociability where you can buy, meet and spend time, made under the artistic direction of Philippe Starck

60. Halele Carol / Carol Factory

• 60. Spazi Indecisi: Abandonment and Reuse
  > A cultural association has been mapping and explor¬ing abandoned places in Italy and Eastern Europe

66. Post-industrial Anina
> The second edition of the industrial heritage workshop dedicated to the sustainable regeneration
 Text: Irina Rotaru, Oana Ţiganea

69. Urban Report

• 70.  Someș Delivery 2015
  > Events and projects dedicated to the urban space around Someș river in Cluj
   Text: Klara Veer, Marius Moga, Mihai Mateiu

• 76. “This place is pretty good”. And it really is
  > Workshop and exhibition in Brăila
  Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

79. Connected

• 80. Finance and Green Buildings
  > The first episode of a series of articles to provide understanding about an important trend in Romania  
  Text: Steven Borncamp

85. Design & More

• 86. Agnes Lukacs: Interior Oases
  > Two interior design projects for FruFru, Bucharest

• 92. Dagmar Štěpánová, Katarína Varsová / Formafatal: Gran Fierro
  > An argentinean restaurant in Prague  

17. Editor’s: High Green, Low Green

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

20. Adrian Pop: A House for Children. And Not Just That

>  Center for Community Resources in the Romanian village of Boldeşti-Scăeni

30. Alexandra Afrăsinei, Cristian Stănoiu: Strategy of Conciliation

>   Auto service with family house

34.  Cristián Berríos:  ERZ House – Futrono

>   A simple house in the south of Chile

38.  RCKa:  Working with Local Community

 >  Collaborative and community-centric design approach

• 39. Enfield Business Centre

• 41. The New Generation (TNG) Youth and Community Centre Lewisham, London

• 48.  Köllő Miklós:  A Shelter for a Saw Mill

>   A traditional vernacular device recon­structed in a village in Harghita county

• 54.  Studio3plus: Delimitation and Redefinition

>  Interior design for an existent house in Bucharest

59. Halele Carol

• 59. Carol Plant Stories or Placemaking for Children

> Multifunctional creative space at Carol Factory in Bucharest

Text: Ștefania Ferchedău

67. Urban Report

• 68.  Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction, the 4th edition

Architectural interventions that deliver tangible benefits to local communities

77. Design & More

• 78.  Ubikubi

> Design  and production partnership and 5 objects presented at the Romanian Design Week  

Text: Robert Savu, Dragoș Motică

83. Connected

• 84. Nanoturism  

> Research programme and workshop at the  Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies in Slovenia

Text: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič

• 90. Studio Roosegaarde: Waterlicht

 > Site-specific installation in the Museumplein in Amsterdam

• 92. Studio Act: VTree

> Prototype of a mobile, autonomous equipment, an urban power generator

Text: Stefan Ghenciulescu

19 Editor’s

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

20 Spatial resonance box. An interview with architect Dorin Ștefan  

>  Parish Church in Alba Iulia

            Reporter: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

30 Ene+Ene Arhitectura: The Monumental & Friendly Little House

>   Holiday residence in a village form Prahova county

            Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

44 Enota:  Place for Cars, People and Concerts

>   Car park in Valenje, Slovenia

50 Post Industry Garden at Carol Factory: public space open through art

> Exhibition with 5 site-specific installations by Norwegian and Romanian artists

63 Urban Report

64  NOD makerspace: Interview with  Tamina Lolev

Reporter: Cosmin Caciuc

73 Design & More

74  Alexe Popescu: Romanian Identity in 50 components  

> Graphic and editorial project of hardcore identity elements and cli­chés about Romania

76  Milan Expo 2015.

People and pavilions. A subjective view  

Text: Laurian Ghinițoiu

87 Connected

88 AISIN: Imagining New Lifestyles with Personal Mobility Devices

> An interactive armchair and a transformable tricycle

90 Volvo Life Paint

> Washable spray paint with reflective particles for cyclists

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

92 Augmented Reality, Carsharing and Intermodal Routes Navigation System

> Intelligent solutions for mobility from BMW

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

95 Closca Design: Foldable Helmet for Urban Cyclists

PROJECT & TEXT: BOGDAN & VAN BROECK

PHOTO: BOGDAN & VAN BROECK, Artur Eranosian

Reconversion of an old mill into an interpretation centre and an incubator in Anderlecht, Belgium.

An action within the project „Actopolis. The Art of Action / Bucharest-Sud. Build your own city!”

We asked the inhabitants of the southern part of Bucharest would would they do if they were mayors. Moreover, we invited in the mayor’s office all those people who at least once asked themselves “What can I do for my city?” The mobile office was specially designed to inspire people to make decisions that can transform the city into a city belonging to the people.

Project: Exhibit Arhitectura
Text: Johannes Bertleff
Photo: Cosmin Dragomir

House E lies in a peripheric residential neighborhood of the Transylvanian city. Blocks of flats invaded the area in the socialist period and, since 1990, a rapid gentrification alters the modest, yet very decent dwellings in a quite brutal way.

DESIGN: pandapanda (Ştefan Batroş, Mihai Barbu, Ştefan Păvăluţă, Justin Baroncea)

PHOTO: Radu Malaşincu

TEXT: Justin Baroncea

PROJECT: ArhiBox

INTERVIEW: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

PHOTO: Bogdan Pop, Mihai Racu, Călin Lada

The rural heritage in Romania is going away at an even faster rate than in the cities: “poor” materials, lack of space, confort and apreciation from their very owners give old houses rather poor chances.