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Klokgebouw Strijp S, Eindhoven
‘Try to be different’

Strijp S, the former Philips factories, plays an important role in the history of Eindhoven. In the early 20th century, the city was still rather a collection of villages, transformed by Philips from the 1920’s into an industrial area. Daily, more than twelve thousand workers passed the entrance gate at Strijp S. For years the area was closed to the public and fenced off. Nowadays, the monumental buildings at Strijp S are the motor behind the transformation of the area into a creative brainport with metropolitan allure, a place where people can live, work, go to school and entertain themselves.

Culture park as global village.Westergasfabriek , Amsterdam

Text/Photo: Vera Cerutti

The Westergasfabriek, a former gas factory in the western part of Amsterdam was converted into a Culture Park, a combination of a multi-functional park, cultural activities and creative industries. Due to the fact that it functions as a neighborhood park but is also known for its ambitious international programming, it is among the most inspiring examples of successful transformation of industrial heritage; in 2010 it received the Europa Nostra Award, European Union’s prize for cultural heritage.

Urban Report is a cross culture program, gathering theories and critical discourses about the contemporary urban phenomena in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. This project was initiated by Zeppelin in 2010 with the support of Romanian Cultural Institute through the Cantemir Program. In 2011 Urban Report consisted of 3 publications, a website and 3 DVDs. In 2012 this project was continued and integrated in the structure of Zeppelin magazine [www.e-zeppelin.ro], with the support of ERSTE Stiftung, in the frame of EE-lab program. 

book – 2010
25 ours of talks about architecture

Accessible both, for architecture professionals and general public, „Laborator 01” synthesizes essential ideas expressed on the occasion of Zeppelin meetings and of the interviews taken to their guests (architects, designers, editors and artists).

13 Towards a technologically augmented and nature orientated future.

18 Degu Studio: Acoustic study and a concert for 4 squirrels in a P+3 apartment
Text: Justin Baroncea, Eduard Gabia

21 Editor’s
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

22 John McAslan + Partners (JMP): King’s Cross – Structural Transformation
> The heart of an important new urban development in London, an internationally significant transport interchange, and Europe’s largest single span station structure.

30 Katrin Lesser & Ben Buschfeld: Bruno Taut’s House and an Urban Vision
>The restoration of architect’s home in Neukölln-Britz, Berlin, is an example of good practice for responsible reactivation of a modernist heritage.

Text: Cosmin Caciuc

38 Recoveries: An Exhibition and a Conference about Cinderellas
Text: Zeppelin

44 Studio Propolis: From Details and Design to Architecture
> Rethinking architecture through carpentry design and workshop craftmanship
Text: Naeem Biviji & Bethan Rayner

52 Miklós Köllö: The Restoration and Condensation of the Architect’s Family House
> An old house in Ciumani village, Harghita county, is extended in plan by only  10 m², and the attic is turned into living space, allowing an urban comfort at the country and eliminating the need for new construction.

Urban Report
52 CTRL+Z: Low-tech Experimentation and Urban Activation
> Mobile and affordable structure and shared working space in a rehabilitated industrial building from Spain
Text: Gianluca Stasi

64 Zeppelin: About the New Fire Pub
> A pub in the historic center of Bucharest

72 Polska Folk
> A travelling exhibition highlighting young Polish designers that get their inspiration from the rural tradition of their country, and an interview with Agnieszka Jacobson‑Cielecka, the curator of this exhibition.

Reporter: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Connected
78 The Vegetable Basket: Organic Micro-Farm Between Village and City
> A successful business in the field of organic farming in Ialomiţa county
Text: Cosmin Caciuc

82 Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab
> A synthesis of all the experiences and ideas generated within the urban labo­ratory in its two-year journey in the cities New York, Berlin and Mumbai.

Text: Cosmina Goagea

86 USF: A Neighborhood for Arts in Bergen
> Postindustrial conversion and a center for arts in Norway
Text: Evy Sørensen

90 Ruhrtriennale 2013: When Art Replaces Industry
> Rediscovering industrial monuments through art and a large yearly cultural event in Germany
Text: Ioana Calen

Text & images: Cosmin Caciuc

 In believe that, at this moment, from a strictly historiographic point of view, both progressive ideology and cultural resistance may find a different kind of civic balance in what I would generally call the urbanity that reclaims the past of modernity, leaving behind the stereotypes of the antagonism which arised with the Modern Movement, based on the new (industrial) city versus the old (preindustrial) city.

Urban Report is a cross culture program bringing together theories and critical discourse on contemporary urban phenomena in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. This project was initiated in 2010 by Zeppelin, with the help of the Romanian Cultural Institute, through Cantemir program. In 2011, Urban Report consisted of three publications, a website and three DVDs. In 2012 this project was continued and integrated into Zeppelin magazine, with the support of ERSTE Stiftung under the EE-lab program.

Text: Constantin Goagea

The mission – is a project initiated by Eurodite and part of the DISC (Dutch Initiative for Sustainable Cities – www.disc-network.eu) activities. Together with Emil Boc, the Mayor of Cluj, Vice Mayors in Bucharest, Cluj, Constanta, Timisoara and Head Architects of Cluj and Bucharest, a representative of the port of Constanta, as well as other professionals in the connected ministry, we have been in an intense and dense visit to Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Utrecht. The top Romanian delegation met Vice Mayors and members of other ministries, their peers, and learned about projects already carried out and a way to manage. The mission worked out in these three days the targets of DISC platform, made to provide Dutch support to Romanian cities and their effort to build up initiatives meant to revive urban regions and areas ignored so far.

www – wall window workshop
Dan Perjovschi at Ruhr Triennale 2013

One of the main attractions of this years’ Ruhr Triennale was Dan Perjovschi’s www – wall window workshop. The artist held the workshop in the Bochum Jahrhunderthalle, a famous industrial building from the region, which now houses performative and visual art. Perjovschi’s intervention included works from his personal collection and contextual drawings, as well, about the building and the event itself.

Under the context of the past few years which generated a number of unfinished buildings, this proposal seems a real treat, a necessary one to say the least . Taking the basis, the structure of someone else’s project and giving it substance, finality and maybe a new vision of space.