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PZP Arhitectura managed to appropriate a standard program in order to create a building with urban potential whose image visibly clashes with the uniformity of the immediate context.

While chatting recently with a client, he asked me how I saw myself as a professional, if I thought I was an engineer or an artist. I must admit I have not wondered about the genus proximus for a long time. An architect is an architect. He does things that are different from the one and the other at the same time.

Two interior designs done in collaboration by SKBD and Lundi et Demi prove the value of hybridization of architecture and object design.

Here I am, ears’ dropping to a conversation that takes place in the market. A woman who sells chestnuts tells the young man patiently waiting for the chestnuts to roast that she too just returned from Italy. She goes on explaining that he would better go visit the modern art museum.

The winner of Mies van der Rohe Prize in 2009, the Norwegian Snøhetta team, has imagined the volumetric shape of the Oslo Opera House as a manmade geography that can be both climbed or used as representative public space.

Not that long ago, just last October the Holocaust Monument was inaugurated in Bucharest. Peter Jacobi, a Romanian born sculptor who lives in Germany for the moment, has come up with an interesting concept.  In fact, the site is almost empty, and thus you get the sense of disappearance; moreover, the place gives you the creeps.

The long restoration of Neues Museum in Berlin is proof of the craftsmanship and professional maturity of two important personalities on the international stage: David Chipperfield and Julian Harrap.

Maybe you know about the Romanian-Bulgarian pseudo-rivalry. Beyond tourism or corruption issues, we, for instance, have a contemporary art museum for which the Bulgarians do envy us; however, in Sofia, they have sidewalks better than ours, their traffic seems more civilized, and why not saying it, they are net winners on the side of cafés or public spaces, parks and squares. This is to set lights and shadows rightly in this nice picture of an imaginary battle. 

In Romania, a car-obsessed country, the application of European mobility policies oscillates between the enunciation of general principles, the promotion campaigns and the uncorrelated partial actions.

What a thing this colouring of the blocks. If you ever moaned about it (no one who would have felt differently than that) that all blocks are alike, that they are boring and ugly, please come now and see that there is no difference at all anymore.