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Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects: From Steel to Kimonos

Takahashi Hiroko Oshiage Studio resulted from converting an old steel building into an exhibition space with studio, meeting room, shop, multifunctional area and even a greenhouse.

Nanotourism. KSEVT – the Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies in Slovenia

Experimental teaching and research programme, and a workshop that took place at KSEVT, the Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies in Slovenia.

Project & text: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič
Photo: Ajda Schmidt

From Stone Barn, to House. Sofia Parente & André Delgado: Nogueiras house

Project & text: Sofia Parente & André Delgado
Photo: José Campos

Formerly used as a barn, Nogueiras house has a built area of only 50 m2 and occupies an existing stone construction in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. At the the ground floor, there is a dou­ble height living area and entrance, and at the first floor a bedroom. The central wood box is the bounding piece of the different areas, incor­porating furniture elements and the bathroom.

House for Memories Or how to transmute architecture out of very banal things

PROJECT, TEXT & PHOTO: Simona Pribeagu Schmid

Simona Pribeagu Schmid is a Romanian arhitect, living and working in Switzerland. Designing and overseeing the construction of a small house for her parents in the small city of Alexandria meant dealing with a tight budget, cheap standard materials and average building skills.

Do not (re)build if you don’t have to. BOGDAN & VAN BROECK: COOP – Reconversion of an old mill

PROJECT & TEXT: BOGDAN & VAN BROECK

PHOTO: BOGDAN & VAN BROECK, Artur Eranosian

Reconversion of an old mill into an interpretation centre and an incubator in Anderlecht, Belgium.

Mayor for 10 minutes

An action within the project „Actopolis. The Art of Action / Bucharest-Sud. Build your own city!”

We asked the inhabitants of the southern part of Bucharest would would they do if they were mayors. Moreover, we invited in the mayor’s office all those people who at least once asked themselves “What can I do for my city?” The mobile office was specially designed to inspire people to make decisions that can transform the city into a city belonging to the people.

The house above the house. Extension of a dwelling from the 50s, Brașov

Project: Exhibit Arhitectura
Text: Johannes Bertleff
Photo: Cosmin Dragomir

House E lies in a peripheric residential neighborhood of the Transylvanian city. Blocks of flats invaded the area in the socialist period and, since 1990, a rapid gentrification alters the modest, yet very decent dwellings in a quite brutal way.

An apartment with planes on the ceiling. Ap. Rindele

DESIGN: pandapanda (Ştefan Batroş, Mihai Barbu, Ştefan Păvăluţă, Justin Baroncea)

PHOTO: Radu Malaşincu

TEXT: Justin Baroncea

Rural house rehabilitation by ArhiBox

PROJECT: ArhiBox

INTERVIEW: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

PHOTO: Bogdan Pop, Mihai Racu, Călin Lada

The rural heritage in Romania is going away at an even faster rate than in the cities: “poor” materials, lack of space, confort and apreciation from their very owners give old houses rather poor chances.

Spacial Resonance Box. Church by Dorin Ștefan Architecture Office

Designing a contemporary Orthodox Church is notoriously difficult. Dorin Ştefan’s project for a parish church on the outskirts of the town of Alba Iulia is perfectly canonic without simplifying or reinterpreting ancient forms.

Project: DSBA

Photo: Anda Ștefan

A challenging and spectacular industrial rehabilitation. OMA: The New Fondazione Prada in Milan

A former distillery becomes a connection  between past and future, between the historic centre and a decayed former activity area. The visionary intervention creates a new landmark on the map of cultural venues and also an evi­dent stimulus for neighborhood regeneration.

GutGut: Socialist Blocks and Integral Rehabilitation

An apartment building from the socialist period in Slovakia is reinvented not just on the outside – with a new façade – but also through the inner planimetria.

Project: GutGut
Text: GutGut, Cosmin Caciuc
Photo: Jakub Skokan & Martin Tůma (BoysPlayNice), GutGut