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Maybe you know about the Romanian-Bulgarian pseudo-rivalry. Beyond tourism or corruption issues, we, for instance, have a contemporary art museum for which the Bulgarians do envy us; however, in Sofia, they have sidewalks better than ours, their traffic seems more civilized, and why not saying it, they are net winners on the side of cafés or public spaces, parks and squares. This is to set lights and shadows rightly in this nice picture of an imaginary battle. 

In Romania, a car-obsessed country, the application of European mobility policies oscillates between the enunciation of general principles, the promotion campaigns and the uncorrelated partial actions.

What a thing this colouring of the blocks. If you ever moaned about it (no one who would have felt differently than that) that all blocks are alike, that they are boring and ugly, please come now and see that there is no difference at all anymore.

Metropolis Center articulates the concrete curtain of Bucharest’s inner city ring and the historical fabric behind it and defines a genuine public space.

This project is far more than a mere rehabilitation and extension of an historical ensemble. In this strictly private development project, urban surgery combines with the creation of a public space.

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