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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.

Metropolis Center articulates the concrete curtain of Bucharest’s inner city ring and the historical fabric behind it and defines a genuine public space.

This project is far more than a mere rehabilitation and extension of an historical ensemble. In this strictly private development project, urban surgery combines with the creation of a public space.

The crew is ready to take off, the people have fastened their belts in their seats (or in a comfortable coach or against our school’s famous radiators) and are ready to read zeppelin. Dear readers, we should tell you that from among thousands charming stories the name under which our journal has been picked to go on signifies the capacity to soar, to dare high, and to meditate.

We, you, the media, various people in culture keep on discussing about the public space. And we start to feel the impact of those speeches. Perhaps not the best ones if we think about the explosion of jardinières, fences, bins  which, most recently, easily turn into a public space agenda for certain town halls.

The building site containers were set up around Bucharest’s National Theatre. According to a project delayed for a couple of years, the theatre is supposed to be reinforced and modernized in the next three years starting from this autumn. The process will involve the dismantling the arcaded façade ordered by Ceausescu in the 1980s; the initial façade will be put in place along with the cantilevered roof, which means that the original project designed by Horia Maicu, Nicolae Cucu, and Romeo Belea will be followed in its outlines.

The house on the outskirts of Sibiu is gently placed on a difficult plot and finds a subtle balance between openness and protection.

The house is located in a residential area with lots of terrains whose shapes and sizes come out further to plotting a steep land. After the Revolution, these plots offering a double access from the edging streets have been subdivided in an uncontrolled manner.