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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.

Thursday, October 6^th, 6:30 pm @MNAC Dalles

An international conference that brings together design, technology, STEAM education and entrepreneurship. A dialogue between Romanian and Swedish experiences and initiatives. Our guests are the ones who actively transform education from institution to a complete learning experience, where a static and cumbersome process becomes dynamic, interactive and fun. 

5 October – 15 November @MNAC Dalles 

Visiting hours: Wednesday-Friday: 4-21 / Saturday-Sunday: 12-20 / Monday-Tuesday: closed

We begin the fall season and Creative Sweden #3 program with magi*k – an interactive exhibition about the history of mass media emergence in Bucharest. We begin with the art deco radio antennas and reach the contemporary era, when the city is plugged in to the global network.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

PHOTO: Radu Malaşincu

TEXT: Justin Baroncea