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November 4 – 12, 2016 -Bucharest, Romania

The third edition of the Bucharest Art Week (BAW) International Festival examines the way in which contemporary artists, curators and theorists place themselves with respect to the theme of nature and the tradition of the landscape.

In September 2016, Zeppelin moved into one of the top innovative buildings produced in Romania in the last years. We wrote about it, promoted intensively. Now we change the role of the critic to the one of the dedicated user.

The House is integrally built from a locally developed thermo- and hydro-insulating concrete, and the result of a partnership between open and responsible clients, an architect with vision and courage and strongly involved construction partners.

Cosmina Goagea – representing Zeppelin Association – was one of three speakers (along with Merlijn Twaalfhoven – Netherlands and Michelle Browne – Ireland) who presented examples of participative practices at the European Academy of Participation International Conference, held on 27 and October 28, 2016 in Dublin.

Beyond the archetypal interpretations and a unique recycling of some prefabricated garages, the small house on the periphery of Bucharest is a shelter in all the senses of the word.

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Project, text: Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán, imagensubliminal.com

Same company, same architects, two consecutive office spaces. A lot of care, attention to needs and an elegant design that is built-up starting from the context and the client’s professional identity.

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Photo: Mihai Ţuţu

A building site and a laboratory instead of a wrapped-up operation: that’s what Republic of Architects tried to express in the interior design of the new atelier. 

Artists:
Antony Rayzhekov (AT/BG), Simona Deaconescu (RO), Gerhard Funk (AT), Mihaela Kavdanska (RO/BG), Cătălin Crețu (RO), Cinty Ionescu (RO), Raluca Nestor-Oancea (RO)

Wednesday, November 9 at 12 PM – 4 PM @ National University of Music Bucharest (Auditorium Hall) – Știrbei Vodă street no. 33, 4th floor

In late May, nearly a hundred residents of the southern part of the city became, briefly, city mayors. In an exercise of imagination and responsibility, ideas and decisions came out of a mobile mayor’s office which moved in three districts in the area. We gathered the participants’ opinions and proposals and soon we will make them public. After completing the action, the pavilion was carried to Belciugatele village, Calarasi County, where Arhipera Association and a team of volunteers have reassembled it, as street furniture, in the park in the village centre.

18 October – 15 November 2016 @ MNAC Dalles
Opening: Tuesday, 18th October, 7 pm

7 Swedish project in an exhibition dedicated to sustainability, identity and aesthetics in Swedish contemporary architecture. The architecture offices taking part are: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture, Kjellander Sjöberg, Notedesignstudio, Petra Gipp Arkitektur, PS Arkitektur, Wingardhs and IceHotel.

Saturday, 15 – Sunday, 16 October: pavilion @ Creative Est Festival (Industria Bumbacului & Nod Makerspace – Splaiul Unirii 160, Bucharest)

Opening: Saturday, 5 pm

Dossier: At the office

We begin with an OMA project, who worked perhaps the hardest, along with the offices of Foster and Rogers, to the reinvention of the office building; a re‑invention not relating to forms per se, but to typological innovation. The office building for public administration in Rotterdam is a far cry from today’s oddly spectacular shapes, but it takes the grid to its very edges, turning it into a tool for urban insertion and context adaptation.

Text, photo: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Strange castles, nearly 100 meters high, with rods, slabs, enormous bellies with iron guts; huge halls; a big barrel full of water, where the wreckages of several little boats and an aircraft are floating; concrete tanks, pools with overgrown water lilies; rows of pillars suffocated by vines; a forest with floating pipes; and still, you do not feel in a detective, post‑apocalyptic or Tarkovsky movie, because there are playgrounds everywhere, and climbing contraptions.