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Text: Cosmin Caciuc / Photo: Daisuke Ohki

From Jules Verne’s novels I reckon that it’s not cool to be a scientist without being eccentric and particularly controversial, or at least declarative. Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence director at Google, occupied by predictions of the future and by the 100 pills that he claims he’s taking daily to live longer, is no exception to this rule. His vision, in short: all roads lead to nanotechnology, that is, manipulated matter at atom level, so that natural and artificial boundaries can be dissolved, even in human tissue.

• Str. Dr. Constantin Istrati no. 1, Bucharest (opposite of Bus station Filaret, next to Park Carol)
• Saturday, 6 of june, from 9:30 P.M.
• Gates open at 7 P.M.

The first Saturday of this summer comes full of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish movies – a rare opportunity to enjoy the Scandinavian cinema at Carol Factory (Halele Carol), but also to celebrate the national day of one of the invited friends, Sweden: on June 6th, just after sunset, the lights of the northern cinema arrive in southern Bucharest, in the former factory next to Carol Park, continuing our program of activating the old site.

creativity workshops for children

6 & 7 June 2015

Children had the opportunity to turn detective and architect and to shape the stories that we tell them or they create themselves.  We worked with photographs, drawings, objects, models and stories that animate children.

 19. Editor’s: Popcorn & revolution
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

22. Éric Gauthier: From Cars to People and Community
>  A former gas station in southwest of Montreal, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1966, was converted into a youth and senior activity centre.

28. Point 4: Furniture Becomes Space
>  An apartment in a socialist block of flats in Bucharest. Small area, even smaller budget, a rigid structure that didn’t allow changes in partition. Therefore, the simple built-in furniture made of wood agglomerate pannels is turned into a design mechanism – it shapes limits, places, finishes, and the expression.

32. DOSSIER: Norwegian Artists at Carol Factory
>  Marit Haugen (Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter), Erland Blakstad Haffner, Finn Eirik Modahl & Arne Revheim will create on May 22nd a path with art installations and design in the outdoor spaces of the factory. This dossier is an introduction to the artistic world of these authors

> 32. Intro
Text: Cosmina Goagea

> 34. Haugen / Zohar Arkitekter

• 34. Cave for Kids

• 36. Micro conversion

> 39. Erlend Blakstad Haffner

• 39. Walking Berlin

• 41. Cardboard Cloud

• 42. New Utøya

> 46. Finn Eirik Modahl & Arne Revheim

• 46. Javel

• 47. Konglo

• 48. SOL/Pulse

50. DOSSIER: Juri Troy Architects  – 3 houses
> This is critical regionalism and ecology for real and not as a fancy discourse. But the houses designed in Austria by Juri Troy′s team are much more than this: wood in all shapes and sizes is stretched to the limit in order to creat perfectly modern spaces and expressive images.

> 51. Intro
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

• 52. 37m in Hohenems

• 58. House under the Oaks

• 62. The House on the Mountain

67. Urban Report

• 68. Asociaţia Komunitas & studioBASAR: Neighbour(hood)s in Bucharest

> Reading a place in order to transform it. A tar¬geted social and anthropological research in Bucharest – Tineretului, Timpuri Noi, Tei.
Text: Miruna Tîrcă, Vlad Cătună, Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan

77. Design & More

• 78. LX Factory:

> A former industrial site in Lisbon transformed in a crea¬tive island
Text: Roger Mor

81. The Oslo School of Architecture and Design: Inverted House, Hokkaido
> The winning project of the Lixil International University Architectural Competition for an experimental house
Text: Laura Cristea

85. Point 4: VI_IT
> Lighting objects made from recycled materials
Text: Justin Baroncea

89. Connected

• 90. Blaze: Laser for Bycicles

> Signaling nocturnal cyclists on the road

• 92. Zumtobel Group Year of Light Event 2015

• 93. Artéria: Mind Maps, Critique and Participation

> A virtual platform and an urban installation in Lisbon

19. Editor’s: Panoptes in the city
Text: Cosmin Caciuc / Photo: Ștefan Tuchilă

22. WWAA + 307 Kilo: Place for Arts, but also a Farm in the City
>  Sluzewski Cultural Centre in Warsaw makes a reference to the traditional farms as an ethical approach to architecture, oriented to the urban context.

30. Attila Wenczel – Parasite Studio: The Slightly Twisted Box
>  Dental clinic on the outskirts of Timisoara

34. gutgut: Socialist Blocks and Integral Rehabilitation
>  A socialist block of flats in Slovakia reinvents itself not only at exterior by a new facade, but also at interior by a new layout.

40. Blanka Zlamalová / Studio Zlamal: Reconstructed Tower
>  A former silo in the Czech Republic becomes a building office

44. Planwerk: Cluj. Therapy for the city of Cluj. The new General Urban Plan
> The recently approved General Plan for Cluj is a product of this evolution to work with the Romanian city in transition. An article about responsible pragmatism and dialogue.

54. Sou Fujimoto Architects: Many Small Cubes
>  Sou Fujimoto built in Paris a house-as-a-tree, a landscape for dwelling formed by metallic pixels.
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

60. Sebastian Irarrázaval: Pavilion 120
>  A covered space at the School of Architecture at the Catholic University of Chile

63. Urban Report
64.  From Docks to Art Gallery, by Urban Archeology
> A multi-purpose area accessible to the public in Belgium

68.  Fine Young Urbanists!: Mierīgi!
> 1:1 scale model of public space in Riga

71. Design & More
72.  Tommy Forsgren: Cross-fertilization of Ideas at DesignworksUSA
> Interview with an industrial designer
Reporter: Cosmin Caciuc

75. Connected
88. Thorsten Klooster, Heike Klussmann: Electricity, Light and Concrete  
> Concrete capable of producing electric energy or light effects

80. MADE Expo 2015 Milano: Beyond the Trade Fair, an Education and Innovation Opportunity  
> International event in the building sector in Italy
Text: Irina Rotaru

84. Cities of Tomorrow 2015: About Mobility, Every which Way
> Conference on mobility seen simultaneously in relation to the city and the economy
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Connected
90. A Preview to the 2015 Universal Exhibition
 > Essential stakes, pride, hopes and worries… and a questionable sustainability. Irina Rotaru wrote from Milan.

Exhibition and conference – Friday 22 May 2015

•  18:00 – Opening: 5 installations -interventions in the public space of Halele Carol, realized by artists and architects from Norway and Romania

Curators:  Evy Sorensen (USF) , Cosmina Goagea and Ştefan Ghenciulescu (Zeppelin)

• 19:00 – Conference with presentations by the authors on their design of the site-specific intervention in the context of their work practice.

Marit Haugen (No)
Erlend Blakstad Haffner (No)
Finn Eirik Modahl & Arne Revheim (No)
Meta van Drunen (Ro)
Constantin Goagea (Ro)

Exhibition open five months from 22 May – 30 October 2015

Conference:  24.03.2015, 09:00-18:00 @ Hotel Crowne Plaza Bucharest, Romania

The German-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Zeppelin Association invite you to the third edition of Cities of Tomorrow, Romania’s top meeting between business, architecture and administration.

This event shows an intense and rich mix of presentation, workshops and networking. Conferences by top international guests go side-by-side with debates on the Romanian situation and perspectives.

Cities of Tomorrow 2015 is dedicated to the relationship between mobility, urban development, economy and constructions.

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

The fountain in Bucharest University Square is not really a great artistic achievement. But it is a place, one of the very few focal points and hubs of life and identity in a city where genuine public spaces, used as such, are almost nonexistent. There′s also a huge symbolic and civic value in this spot. People died here during the Revolution of 1989 and during the conflicts with the miners (the so-called Mineriads), crowds still gather here for demonstrations, individuals come here on a daily basis, to discuss, to meet or simply to rest. Of course, those perimetral water jets installed by the City Hall from a few years ago, that drench you as soon as you sit, destroyed much of the quality of the place, but it dwelt on. It even resisted the initiative of the same City Hall to replace the fountain with a banal refurbishment.

Text: Cosmin Caciuc
Photo: Ștefan Tuchilă

Google Glass has been stirring up the media. However, it didn’t have the expected commercial success from a social and psychological reason: the fear of being watched when you don’t want to, plus the embarrassing moments when you ask your interlocutor with the cyborg device on his face: “Is that thing recording right now?” And we’ll just let slide the glasshole nickname attributed in urban dictionaries to these gadget carriers.

15. Editor’s: The Mayor I Wish We Had
Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

16. Antonini + Darmon: Blended into the Context
>  Located on a naval wasteland in Nantes, this project configures 24 collective social housing units, 6 individual dwellings and a restaurant.

26. Wizja & nsMoonStudio: Structure, Contrast and Symbol
>  Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor in Krakow

32. KOBFUJI Architects: Fusion. 2 Japanese Restaurants in Barcelona
>  Yoi Yoi Gion Barcelona & Tokyo Sushi Gràcia

36. C+S Architects: School & Community
>  Chiarani Primary School, Italy

41. C+S Architects: School & Experiment
>  Fontaniva School Center, Italy

46. TECTO Arhitectura: The House in the Woods  
>  This is one of the quite rare examples of pas¬sive dwellings and, actually, of contemporary wooden architecture, in Romania. The house gently adapts to the slope and grows around an interior garden.

54. cepezed architects: Creative Cluster, History and Industrial Atmosphere
>  Reconversion of the former Museum of Technology at the Ezelsveldlaan, Delft

60. Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal: Transparency and Flexibility
>  FRAC – Regional Contemporary Artwork Collection – located on the northern site of Dunkerque, France, in an old boat warehouse, creates a double of this warehouse, of the same dimension, attached to the existing building, containing the program under a light and bioclimatic envelope.

69. Urban Report

• 70. IPoP: Cities Belong to Pedestrians!

> Pedestrian-friendly places are vital for urbanity
Text: Marko Peterlin, IPoP

• 74. On Neutral Spaces: The New Life of the Soviet Library Network

> SVESMI, an office for architecture, urban¬ism and cultural programming based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has been investigating the potential of the Moscow library network – one of the largest in the world – looking into possibilities for its preserva¬tion, re-organisation, and subsequent upgrade.
Text: James Taylor-Foster, Anastassia Smirnova, Alexander Sverdlov

81. Design & More

• 82. Between North and South: the River Valley as a Restructuring Element

Dâmbovița River could become a strategic element for rebalancing Bucharest’s uneven development
Text: Claudiu Forgaci

87. Connected

• 88. HoloLens: The Holographic Life

> The first holographic computer from Microsoft, related with Windows 10, alters our very notion of reality: digital content will be mixed with the physical objects around us.
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

• 91. LIKEarchitects: Kinematix

> Interior design and a flexible system of sliding doors

• 94. LIKEarchitects: wonderWall

> Exhibition space in a shopping mall from Lisbon