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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.
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18: How to Organize your Own Museum. A Bulgarian Practical Guide/ Constantin Goagearestoration
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.- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
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.- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
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- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
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: 22 a fur hat, some chestnuts, and the “new black” / constantin goageaneighbours
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: 24 atrium for books- Recommend on Facebook
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