public: Snøhetta
: 18 un urban iceberg / The winner of Mies van der Rohe Prize
in 2009, the Norwegian Snøhetta team has imagined the volumetric shape of the Oslo Opera House as a manmade geography that can be both climbed or used as representative public space.
dwelling: Ryuichi Ashizawa
: 26 twelve boxes, one home / A house like a small village, intelligently
adapted to life changes, integrates dwelling and gardening in an organic manner, and promotes social interaction with the neighbors.
public: Ryuichi Ashizawa
: 32 capela celor cinci simturi / Exemplificand principiul Less is More, o capela isi face loc in holul unui hotel ca un sertar de lemn si se deschide spre peisajul natural, oferind o experienta complexa corporala si spirituala.
public: Virai Arquitectos
: 36 winding in the landscape / A sports complex in La Cendea de
Galar, Navarra, seems to embrace the surrounding landscape, carefully negotiating between an agricultural fi eld, various infrastructures and fragments of urban tissue.
public: Felix Solaguren – Beascoa
: 42 refined prefabrication / Maria Ossó School of Barcelona proves that an intelligent prefabricated reinforced concrete system can continue to pay a great homage to the tradition of critical modernism.
dwelling: Felix Solaguren – Beascoa
: 48 ecological responsibility / Occupying a dense and restrictive urban space in Barcelona, an apartment block promptly responds to a list of “green” imperatives, without reducing any of its aesthetic qualities.
dossier: Li Xiaodong
Apart from well known delirious developments, Chinese architecture can be also about alternative approaches, like the critical regionalism expressed by the three projects in this dossier.
: 54 bridge-school / A multifunctional complex within a small structure as well as a contemporary insertion in a historical context
: 60 water house / Water, natural materials, archetypal forms and the views towards a splendid natural landscape become the essential features of a discreet and serene design.
: 64 careful insertion / Yuhu Elementary School and Community Centre in Lijiang are based on a research into local social and architectural tradition and creates with minimal means a complex ensemble.
neighbours: ZSK Architects
: 68 two places, two houses, two approaches
Insertion versus asserted autonomy: the two villas in Budapest designed by the ZSK Architects office respond to two radically different urban contexts.
history now: Louis Khan & Tadao Ando
: 76 Louis Khan & Tadao Ando at Fort Worth
Bordering each other, Kimbell Art Museum and Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth illustrate how is possible today to engage in a successful manner a critical modernism open to the larger cultural dialogue.
competition
: 86 Gabroveni Inn/ A conservative image prevailed over a contemporary take on history in the selection of the project that won the competition for the restoration and extension of the Gabroveni Inn in Bucharest.
alternative: Angelo Roventa
: 92 elastic dwelling / Angelo Roventa’s modular system makes it possible to multiply living space by four activating the various units either simultaneously or subsequently.
urban: Kai Voeckler
: 96 Living In The Future! Post-war German urban development / The conservative cliché that denies any qualities to modernist planning is contradicted by this research that acknowledges urban identity as a product of overlapping developments.
design: Radu Comsa
102: che fare / A question without a question mark. Enzo Mari and Gabriele Pezzini at the Galerie Dutharc, Paris, January – February 2010
