editorial
18: How to Organize your Own Museum. A Bulgarian Practical Guide/ Constantin Goagea
restoration
20: continuity of time layers / The long restoration of Neues Museum in Berlin is proof of the craftsmanship and professional maturity of two important personalities on the international stage: David Chipperfield and Julian Harrap.
public
30: a portico, a passage, and an atrium / The work of Carlos Ferrater and Juan Trias de Bes, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel is the result of a finely-tuned conversion of one of Barcelona’s existing monumental buildings whose urban qualities are brought to the fore.
dossier: werner sobek
Or How Ecology, Adaptive Structures, Constant Experiments, Research and Creativity can underlie a New Synergy between Architecture and Engineering.
38: station z / A vacuum stabilized membrane construction creates a discreet and neutral envelope that protects the remains of the crematorium at Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
42: r128 / Spatial complexity and innovative energy concepts made this house an experiment not only in terms of residential architecture but also for the development of far larger structures.
48: h16 / A celebration of sustainibility, landscape and comfort as well as a tribute to outstanding icons of modern architecture.
52: r129 / This experimental house celebrates sustainibility and flexibility and expresses the radical rethinking of architectural and construction paradigms.
54: d10
55: synchron
56: ilek / From umbrellas to folds, glass cupolas and vacuum structures: design, construction and material science merge at the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design.
social
62: the fairytale box / The Utrecht playground building, designed by Mulders vandenBerk Architecten, shows that, beyond the usual clichés, sensitive minimalism can stimulate senses and imagination.
industrial
66: work containers / The project for a craftsmen community, elaborated by the young office run by Pierre-André Comte and Stéphane Vollenweider, provided a clear answer and a meaningful solution to a local need.
landscape
72: roofs in a garden / The coverage of tennis courts from Tennis Municipaux de Cannes, performed by the Comte & Vollenweider office, responds in a refined manner to special topographical conditions, clearly joining a tectonic logic.
neighbours
78: just a box / For this industrial building in Slovenia, Ofis Arhitekti turned the most banal program and a given volume and construction system into means for architecture.
dwelling
82: an inhabited courtyard / Virgil Ioan intended this mansion as a complex route and a play on strong or weak boundaries within the plot of land.
86: the architect’s house / In the middle of a typical American residential suburban neighborhood, Mircea Marinescu designed and built a house of timeless and restrained modernism.
public
88: an open school / The Clichy Toussaint Louverture School blends the building proper and the schoolyard into a unfied and attractive ensemble.
arhiturism
90: china in 6 episodes / Stefan Tuchila went thousands of miles by train and plane, hundreds on foot, observed and took pictures. We’re starting a series of articles on China’s cities and themes related to them. Episode 1 is Shanghai.
92: episode 1.shanghai / One can not understand this city’s developmnet only in economical terms. A prewar cosmopolitan history and the new forms of national prides provide an equally important context.
theory
98: panopticon: a critique of Foucault’s disciplinary model/ Sebastian Botic reinterprets the meaning of a famous concept in architectural theory, with a starting point in Jeremy Bentham only to arrive to the disciplinary society, searching to reassess it in a proper spirit.
