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The design as a memory recovery: some urban furniture made from building elements of the National Dance Center of Bucharest (NDCB), currently in full demolition. On Saturday night going into Sunday, during the project Occupied NDCB (see Zeppelin 94), Eduard Gabia started to cut metal artifacts and share them with the participants. Equipped with gloves, goggles and overalls, he cut pieces of the railings with a metal cutter.

Built in a public-private partnership, the new market in Celje was designed as a generator of life in the city centre able to resuscitate the surrounding area. The town market is situated in the heart of the city. Ever since it was formed, in the middle of the previous century, the market has represented the centre of urban activity in the city. In contrast to the old market, the new development is designed as an extrovert urban area, a kind of covered city square which is inextricably linked to the surrounding urban space.

The architecture of this block of flats is mostly due to the critical reference to an unfortunate context and to the negotiation between the individual and the collective. Developed in one of the famous satellite-dormitory-cities of Bucharest, quiet yet lacking any character – besides the one given by some expensive and anachronic self-referential buildings, appearing from behind some giant fences – this project was from the very beginning marked by a critical-ironical detachment from the context.

The “Canotca” – a model of innovative tradition recovery
Rowmania project initiated by Ivan Patzaichin Association – Mila 23 aims at supporting locals and traditions specific to the Danube Delta.

Alba Carolina Citadel – a story about world heritage destruction advertised as cultural valorisation and supported by EU funds

Recently, in our 93 issue, I was pointing out a highly questionable intervention carried out on the Alba Carolina citadel from Alba Iulia, important reference for Vauban citadels. The previous text was especially impugning the concept of the project conceived by arch. Gheorghe Lancrajan-Franchini assonant to the European level principles. The two major tenets flagrantly contradicted in this case are: 1) car traffic limitation in favour of non-polluting conveyance with increased social potential (walking and cycling) in historic centres and 2) green areas conservation and multiplication with a paricular focus on trees.

Anish Kapoor’s installation for Monumenta 2011 is a true architectural piece of work, an exceptional discourse about interior and exterior, limits, structure, and scale.
Ever since its opening during the World Exhibition of 1900, Grand Palais was a major exhibition space in France’s capital. Due to its vast volume flooded with light and the spectacular structure of the roof, it could shelter variegated events, from Chanel fashion parades, car fairs, horse races to the work of the most famous world artists.

More or less on Aurora and Bucharest, on factories and blocks and on art as a sophisticated riddle.

Interview: Constantin Goagea
Photo: Sorin Nainer

This article was published in zeppelin magazine number 97.

One room on Plantelor Street. After 20 minutes of talk with Cristi, am so absorbed that I almost forget we are recording it. We talk about film and architecture, what is beyond definitions. He speaks about the cinema beyond the clichés of a dictionary, while I talk about the unspoken side of architecture, the void.

“Design of the ground public space – University Parking: Technical Project”

The idea of the competition has come up after the opening in 2010 of the site for the underground parking lot in the University Square in the center of the Romanian capital.
Since several derogations were made from the provisions of the Zonal Urban Plan endorsed by the General Council of Bucharest Municipality, Bucharest Branch of the Architects’ Chamber of Romania has demanded the authorities:

As we don’t have quite so many, we are going to make some distinction, but it’s simple. If you want to be the lucky one, please take a picture from somewhere up, like you were looking from zeppelin, and send it to us at: comunicare@zeppelin-magazine.net

And don’t forget: higher you are taking the picture from, better it is. For sure you can find something like a balcony, some skyscraper, an attic window or a tower. Besides your award book, you gain the chance to be published, posted and complimented by Zeppelin team. So that we are all ready, let’s start! We are waiting for your “up pictures” until June 29th, Wednesday night. June 30th we are announcing the winners, displaying the photos on fb as well as on our site.

BELGRADE DAYS OF ORIS
March 18th, 2011 — Dom sindikata, Belgrade

Oris magazine continues the tradition of the Days of Oris, presenting for the second time the Belgrade Days of Oris, in Dom Sindikata in Belgrade on 18 March.