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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

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.

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 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.

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

TEXT: Ştefan Ghenciulescu

If you like (to take photos of) clashes, dissonances, decadence and gaudiness, quaint and slightly sordid things, this city is for you. You almost don’t have to even try, the picture will just jump at you with a nice framework of old buildings and new ones, with improvised appendices and absurd details.

Otilia Mihalcea recently launched her own design brand, OVAL. At this edition of International Fashion Showcase 2016 (a section of London Fashion Week), her collection Neotectonics received a Special Prize for Accessory Design.

Photo: Alexandru Boghian
Model: Ada Tache

The building is located on a dead end street in the northwestern part of the old city center. The distinctive urban fabric, with various shapes of plots, heigths and stylesis suffers a strong speculative pressure, and most of the recent buildings are highly dissonant in scale and image.

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu
Project: ADN BA
Photo: Cosmin Dragomir