Articles published by: Nickname

editorial
20: I left such a colourful world / Constantin Goagea

landmark
22: structure.membrane.filtru / An office building by Carlos Ferrater, Xavier Marti and Patrick Genard in Barcelona: subtle references to Mies van den Rohe, respect for the site, timeless aesthetics.

experiment

30: all senses experience / Roca Barcelona Gallery building, realized by Studio Carlos Ferrater, displays a coherent communication strategy by a powerful architectural image, avoiding any speculative formalism.

public
36: built layers / A sports centre designed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos is rooted into a suburban site of Madrid following a downward topographic logic and the spirit of the place.

44: ephemeral and translucent / For Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, attention paid to a temporary market in Madrid balances the effort involved into defi nite projects, though not denying an economic reason.

urban
50: the roof as a facade / TMB park is an ecologic roof atop the new Horta bus depot in Barcelona. Coll-Leclerc Architects searched for a new conceptual approach and diff erent sources of inspiration in landscape architecture.

public space

58: un nod intre doua orase / Bordering on two cities, in a derelict, conflictual area, Territori 24 team’s atypical project generates an urban park superimposed on the existing urban and road infrastructure.
64: a new landscape / Th is public space project in Granada creates
a new topography: a carpet crossed by strength lines and channels that
mediates between the urban and the former agricultural landscape.

dwelling
68: zafiro house / Th e two semi-detached houses in Huetor-Vega (Granada) form a complex ensemble of indoor and outdoor living spaces inside a strongly defined perimeter.

dossier: exhibit arhitectura
72: A dossier dedicated to the most recent works of this young office from Brasov: exemplary restauration works activate spaces in historical centers and smart design creates strong even if temporary spaces for book fair pavilions.

73: the pleasant logic of some ordinary events / The administrative center of the Lutheran Church in Brasov is the product of both a sensitive restauration and a creative use of furniture as a space defi ning element.
78: a book cellar / Expanding Humanitas Bookstore of Sibiu explores semantic and sensorial resources of progressive penetration into an underground space.
82: two stands for book fairs / Both projects reject of the standard solution of ensembles made up of boxes and devise the stands as total, active spaces, where the equipment and furniture play an essential part.

theory
86: innovation and customization: the architectural envelope/ Navigating between aesthetic questions, ethical problems and technical challenges, Vincenzo P. Bagnato and Spartaco Paris revaluate the meaningful relationship between the image of contemporary architecture and tectonic culture.

strategies
92: urban mobility from european to national / 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.

architourism
96: china, ep.2: Guilin, Hongcun, Suzhou, Xidi / Between fast destruction and exploitation of mass tourism. After Shanghai and the mix between economic boom and national pride, the article series dealing with the Chinese cities continues with some suggestive examples concerning the attitude towards the historical and natural heritage.

editorial
: 16 We’ve got everything! White plastic boxes for guards, electric switch boxes, bobbies, and bodyguards /Constantin Goagea

public: Snøhetta
: 18 un urban iceberg / 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.

dwelling: Ryuichi Ashizawa

: 26 twelve boxes, one home / A house like a small village, intelligently
adapted to life changes, integrates dwelling and gardening in an organic manner, and promotes social interaction with the neighbors.

public: Ryuichi Ashizawa
: 32 capela celor cinci simturi / Exemplificand principiul Less is More, o capela isi face loc in holul unui hotel ca un sertar de lemn si se deschide spre peisajul natural, oferind o experienta complexa corporala si spirituala.

public: Virai Arquitectos
: 36 winding in the landscape / A sports complex in La Cendea de
Galar, Navarra, seems to embrace the surrounding landscape, carefully negotiating between an agricultural fi eld, various infrastructures and fragments of urban tissue.

public: Felix Solaguren – Beascoa 
: 42 refined prefabrication / Maria Ossó School of Barcelona proves that an intelligent prefabricated reinforced concrete system can continue to pay a great homage to the tradition of critical modernism.

dwelling: Felix Solaguren – Beascoa 

: 48 ecological responsibility / Occupying a dense and restrictive urban space in Barcelona, an apartment block promptly responds to a list of “green” imperatives, without reducing any of its aesthetic qualities.

dossier: Li Xiaodong 
Apart from well known delirious developments, Chinese architecture can be also about alternative approaches, like the critical regionalism expressed by the three projects in this dossier.

: 54 bridge-school / A multifunctional complex within a small structure as well as a contemporary insertion in a historical context

: 60 water house / Water, natural materials, archetypal forms and the views towards a splendid natural landscape become the essential features of a discreet and serene design.

: 64 careful insertion / Yuhu Elementary School and Community Centre in Lijiang are based on a research into local social and architectural tradition and creates with minimal means a complex ensemble.

neighbours: ZSK Architects
: 68 two places, two houses, two approaches
Insertion versus asserted autonomy: the two villas in Budapest designed by the ZSK Architects office respond to two radically different urban contexts.

history now: Louis Khan & Tadao Ando
: 76 Louis Khan & Tadao Ando at Fort Worth
Bordering each other, Kimbell Art Museum and Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth illustrate how is possible today to engage in a successful manner a critical modernism open to the larger cultural dialogue.

competition
: 86 Gabroveni Inn/ A conservative image prevailed over a contemporary take on history in the selection of the project that won the competition for the restoration and extension of the Gabroveni Inn in Bucharest.

alternative: Angelo Roventa
: 92 elastic dwelling / Angelo Roventa’s modular system makes it possible to multiply living space by four activating the various units either simultaneously or subsequently.

urban: Kai Voeckler

: 96 Living In The Future! Post-war German urban development / The conservative cliché that denies any qualities to modernist planning is contradicted by this research that acknowledges urban identity as a product of overlapping developments.

design: Radu Comsa
102: che fare / A question without a question mark. Enzo Mari and Gabriele Pezzini at the Galerie Dutharc, Paris, January – February 2010