13 Towards a technologically augmented and nature orientated future. 18 Degu Studio: Acoustic study and a concert for 4 squirrels in a P+3 apartmentText: Justin Baroncea, Eduard Gabia 21 Editor’sText: Cosmin Caciuc 22 John McAslan + Partners (JMP): King’s Cross – Structural Transformation> The heart of an important new urban development in London, an internationally significant […]
29 Editor’s: CindirellasText: Ștefan Ghenciulescu 30 Bearth & Deplazes Architekten: Rigor and Timelessness> The headquarters of an insurance company in Landquart, Switzerland, designed by Bearth & Deplazes, recall almost pedagogically the principle of space defined by structure and Louis Kahn’s great lesson of critical modernismText: Cosmin Caciuc & Bearth & Deplazes Architekten 38 DOSSIER: […]
28 Editor’s #117 / In the countryside. For us, for them, for everyoneText: Stefan Ghenciulescu 30 SANAA: Outside Paris Text: Corina Laza> Sanaa created for Louvre Lens Museum a building that is capable to dissolve itself in the landscape and whose galleries contradict the traditional canons of museology. 42 DOSSIER: Kaden Klingbeil Architekten: Wood as a Resource for […]
16 Sou Fujimoto: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2013> Fujimoto proposes a new relationship of architecture with context and building technology, offering it as a bare scaffold for subsequent and spontaneous events and social relationships.Text: Cosmin Caciuc 27 Editor’s: Participationism avant la lettre: looking back to past experience Text: Cosmin Caciuc 28 Latz+Partner: Factory to Park > What was left of […]
21 Editor’s: Copenhagen of course, Gehl Architects, Better Cities(about Sustainable cities Conference. Foundations and our urban future)Text: Constantin Goagea 24 Tony Fretton Architects: Concordant urban layersTony Fretton Architects has completed a new development of houses in the Dutch town of Den Helder, illustrating an intervention oriented toward the existing context of the city. 32 DOSSIER: Kochi Architect’s Studio3 […]
32 Julita Wójcik – the social interest of artInterview by Cosmin Caciuc 38 Editor’s: The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yetText: Cosmina Goagea 40 schneider+schumacher architects: Carpet of Light for Artworks> An underground extension for the Städel Museum in Frankfurt establishes a discreete relation with the existent building, by cleverly integrating lightning, structural and climatic […]
20 Editor’s: The Public Space with Multiple IdentityText: Cosmin Caciuc 22 Renzo Piano at RonchampText: Corina LazaControversies around the recent intervention right next to one of the major monu¬ments of modernity. 32 Klara Veer / A Kitchen for the PaintBrush Factory This tiny intervention in an independent art centre became an exercise in cultural programming and participative architecture 38 DOSSIER: Hondelatte […]
24. Editor’s: Rem Koolhaas’s Fundamentals and a few doubtsText: Cosmin Caciuc 26. The World Inside the TowerA house designed by Starh on a tiny plot in Bucharest is hermetic and charming, rigorous and complex, innovative and cosy. 40. Cannatà & Fernandes: Landscape Laboratory, a Conversion without AmbiguitiesWhile asserting its indisputable contemporaneity, the intervention of Cannatà & Fernandes in […]
24 Editor’s: Tactical urbanism / Text: Cosmin Caciuc 26 Dosmasuno arquitectos: Translucent Wrapping> The social services centre in Móstoles, Madrid goes beyond the rigid functional constraints and has an expressive reaction to the surrounding context through subtracted volumetric shapes and porous façades. 40 DOSSIER: ARCò > Three schools built for the Bedouin communities located in a Middle East. Ecoregionalism, […]