Architecture.
City.
Society.
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
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.
Architecture.
City.
Society.