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The work of Dutch office mei is smart and complex. While their buildings immediately attract attention, they also spring from a deep reflection on programming and identity, urban life and the need of communities

Metaphorical greenery shapes the experimental facade of this garage. A project about public  character for an equipment, architectural joy and hi-tech manufacturing

Barcelona’s La Rambla is split in about three places. Half of the medieval centre disappears.
Cerdà’s extension loses, as percent, fewer surfaces, but it’s enough to have no kind of continuity and stop working as an urban system. Right behind this mad axis and the concrete curtains, fragments of blocks from the famous grid or of the historic fabric are left.

Economy is still in a bad shape, and so is architecture. If that weren’t enough, two recent events leave us with a bitter taste regarding the situation and the perspectives of the Romanian urban realm. First, we have a new and sinister law for urbanism. Taking the problems in the recent law as an argument (well, there certainly were things to improve there), we have now get an official comeback of derrogative planning and speculation cherished by law, as well as a weakened protection of the natural and built heritage. The argument that this will attract investitors is laughable: even more in times of crisis, a serious investor will think twice before committing on the long term in a place where the rules continually change.

Romania Green Building Council presents new courses within the “Green Building Professional” Certification & Training program: “Lighting Design & Smart Building” and “Building Envelopes of Green Buildings”
Do you want to be always one step ahead of the competition or to enhance your abilities as a professional working in construction and related industries toward a sustainable built environment? Register now within our Certification & Training program, “Green Building Professional” and be sure not to miss our courses!

The cultural association Spazi Indecisi and the European project Atrium present TOTALLY LOST, a European contest for professional and amateur photographers and video makers.

The purpose of the contest is to discover, survey and photograph the architectural heritage of European totalitarian regimes, specifically architectures that lay now in abandoned state: production sites, municipal buildings, private buildings, political or propaganda places, etc.

East Centric Architecture Triennale 2013, with the T r a n s ( a p ) p a r e n c i e s theme, is an event dedicated to East and Central European Architecture and critique. The central components of the Triennale are T r a n s ( a p ) p a r e n c i e s (critical demarche), the essay contest (critical discourse) and East Centric Arhitext Awards (practic architectural demarche and discourse). The Triennale is the place to meet, debate and reflect for the practitioners, critics, students and the large public. It is the place where alternative and interdisciplinary architectural practice is explored, where everyone can participate and build that sustainable, common and coherent future that the Triennale envisages.

As we don’t have quite so many, we are going to make some distinction, but it’s simple. If you want to be the lucky one, please take a picture from somewhere up, like you were looking from zeppelin, and send it to us at: comunicare@zeppelin-magazine.net.

Izhar Gafni, an Israeli expert in the design of automated mass production lines discovered after years of research an opportunity to increase the structural performance of corrugated banal cardboard (usually used only in packaging) to make bicycles.