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Reference to landscape

Post de: Andreu Arriola & Carme Fiol

A fire station showing the authors’ interest in both a dialogue with the surrounding landscape and a need to provide a tailor-made space for a particularly functional program.

The interwoven square

Post de: Cosmin Caciuc

The rehabilitation of some spaces in the centre of a small Polish town increases the value of the place through reasonable investments, rigor and intelligent interweaving of old fragments and new interventions.

 

Editor’s: Urban activations

Post de: Constantin Goagea

Something strange is looming today like a sort of dystopia: the city of private mentalities. A city that is run from a cell phone. The buildings of a better tomorrow pass our way like a rushing pell-mell while the freedom of reaction is less important than novelty which does not allow any time for reflection; novelty means a continuous activity, progress, the purely better part and victory.

 

Editor’s: Experts in the future

Post de: Constantin Goagea

The future is the place to cultivate optimist and bright plans, and for the cities, global efforts go to new sophisticated digital technologies and to interfaces supporting us to manage with those technologies.

One-piece design. With Anca Fetcu / Bucharest Design Center

Post de: Constantin Goagea

Constantin Goagea: In 2008 you came back from UK. Certainly, to move mountains and I suppose you quickly banged your head against brick walls.
Anca Fetcu: A day after coming back… (laughing) …No, not at all…Well, they said it’ s not possible, not here, not now, it’s difficult and it won’t come out.

Creation Factory, Barcelona by Manuel Ruisánchez, Francesc Bacardit, Architects

Post de: Manuel Ruisánchez, Francesc Bacardit, arhitecti

Light partions and the insertion of new organs shape the strategu for the recovery of the the Fabra & Coats Factorya as a centre for creative industries.

 

Editorial: The boy with a rock star name

Post de: Constantin Goagea
When you get in your forties, you swear that the whole male world is moving in a more or less predictable way: you have stories to tell which make young women gaze in wonder, you can count some important work experiences, fulfilled personal projects or at least clear ones, a secure job, a company, children, wife, one mistress or more, each depending on the case, lots of travels, cars, motorcycles, an apartment, a better house.

 

Editor’s: The Apocalypse of refinement

Post de: Constantin Goagea

We were all rich and cool, the world was a crack bar known by everybody from a magazine, where everyone looked full of admiration how we got in our expensive cars, then, yes, I would invite everybody at home, as I was rich and everyone would envy me, as I used to press the remote control and a pool on the ceiling would come up,

Editor’s: Design for luck

Post de: Constantin Goagea
The most beneficial trade has become nowadays that which deals with luck. Such a relative, intangible and evanescent value has each time more and more offices, public consumption, even temples. Until a few years ago people were still thinking of opening restaurants or bringing clothes from all over the world and starting up a design boutique. Today – in Bucharest at least, but I think it is the same in many other cities – you find spaces that celebrate luck.

 

Editor’s: Dusting, painting, and thinking critically…

Post de: Cosmin Caciuc
For a couple of years now we keep on mapping alterantive practices among our neighbours – all sorts of “action-isms” which do not look like genuine architecture in the glorious meaning of achievements meant to last over centuries, but which are connected to dusting, clearing and painting things in deprived areas, as a part-time or voluntary work.