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How to build from scraps. Baubüro in situ: Extending the Cycle

The extension of an industrial building in the Swiss city of Winterthur. „Extending the Cycle” project received the Global and the European Prize at the 2021 Holcim Awards – the main global competition for sustainable design.

Reviving the Modernist Housing Block. Kati Salonen & Mona Schalin Architects: Restoration of the Serpentine House, Helsinki

The Serpentine House (Finnish: Käärmetalo) is one of the best-known residential developments in post-war Helsinki – among other merits, it has been listed by DOCOMOMO as a significant example of modern architecture in Finland.

Brick social housing insulated with seaweed. 08014 arquitectura: 24 apartments in Ibiza

Seaweed on the roof, and bricks filled-in with earth from the building site excavation. This small and compact dwelling block happily blends timeless rationalism and regionalism, climate- and social appropriate thinking and smart inventions. A model.

The Open City. A Conversation with Doina Petrescu

Doina Petrescu teaches Architecture and Design Activism at the University of Sheffield and, together with Constantin Petcou, founded Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée, a platform-association intersecting architecture, participative urban planning, activism, acting as a device for addressing societal issues through the participative activation of unused spaces.

Group, guild, collective. The ‘woman architect’ in the communist regime

At least three of the words I used in the title raise questions beyond the aesthetic register. First, ‘guild’. The idea of belonging to a ‘professional group with common interests’ (a possible definition of the guild) contains a cultural anachronism

Wim Wender & The Tokyo Toilet. Kashiwa Sato, Yoshihiro Saito: Landmark Toilet, Ebisu Station, Tokyo

The newest Wim Wenders movie, Perfect Days, which was filmed in Shibuya, Tokyo, was inspired by a  network of famous designers and architects who designed nothing else but 17 toilets for one of the most populated cities of the world.

Complexity and Care. The Amal Amjahid Centre, Molenbeek‑Saint‑Jean

Late December on a canal embankment, in a rarely praised neighbourhood. The complex, named after an exceptional Brussels-born sportswoman, does not shout its presence. However, upon entering, I have found a magical and complex world, welcoming athletes, toddlers, teenagers or simply neighbours who use its gallery as a shortcut.

Nominated for the EU Mies Award: „The Nursery. 1306 plants for Timisoara”

In 2023, Timisoara was European Capital of Culture. The program was based on several components, one of which was the section Places relating to the city’s spaces – old and new, to urban regeneration and discussions about the city’s future.

Zeppelin magazine #171: ”Transylvania. Living History & New Architectures”

Edito: Mies, Corbu, Mosquitoes

Text, photo: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

DOSSIER: Transylvania

Coordinators: Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Cătălina Frâncu

Edito: Mies, Corbu, Mosquitoes

Mosquito nets reduce natural lighting, transparency and ventilation, and thicken the window frames. But we need them, like many other things that spoil design

Turning the red carpet of the starts into a white carpet for all people. C+S: Piazza del Cinema, Lido di Venezia

Reacting to Lido losing its role as one of the most sought-after seaside resorts in Europe, the site an international competition for the new Cinema Festival Palace was organized.

Exoskeleton and lived-in courtyard. Attila Kim Architects: House with exposed concrete, Bucharest

We are in one of the former semi-rural areas in northern Bucharest, where most all old houses have made way for post-Socialist villas (especially since the 1990s).