Another German Gehry:
museum MARTa in Herford (DE) Jakriborg (SE): how a
replica of a Hanseatic city can seem more original than the archetype Ambitious art cube: the
ARoS museum for modern art in Aarhus (DK) Lloyd Hotel and restaurant
Werck in Amsterdam (NL) and much more...
New projects
Car parks, Lisbon (PT) Cité du Design,
Saint-Étienne (FR) Shopping centre, Budapest
(HU) by György Fazakas and Jean Paul Viguier Olympic Loop, Paris (FR)
by NL Architects Viewing platform, Aurland
(NO) by Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen National Library, Minsk
(BY) by Viktor Kramarenko and Mikhail Vinogradov Youth hostel, Prora (DE)
by Atelier Kempe Thill
Wouter Vanstiphout interviews Sam Jacob of London-based office
Fat.
WV: “The first thing I knew about you
was a slogan you were using: ‘Kill the Modernist Within’.
Is he dead already?” SJ: “I wish he was. He’s like Rasputin
– shot, stabbed, poisoned, but still getting up for more. It sounds
aggressive, but it was more of a self-help thing. Like standing in front
of the mirror and saying ‘I LOVE ME’ twenty times each morning.
The magic mantra was supposed to curb the voice inside that peers out,
looking at what you’re designing and says ‘you can’t
do that, stop doing this, that and the other’ and so on –
a kind of moral cop planted within by architectural education”.
New buildings
Fire station, Nanterre
(FR) by Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart 'Im Birch' school, Zurich
(CH) by Peter Märkli Library, Lisbon (PT) by
Fernando Martins Slender/Bender, Berlin
(DE) by deadline architects Museum of Occupations,
Tallinn (EE) by Indrek Peil and Siiri Vallner Apartment and veterinary
practice, Luxembourg, by Nico Steinmetz and Arnoud de Meyer University Library, Azores,
by a.s* Technorama, Winterthur
(CH) by Dürig & Rämi Maritime Youth House,
Copenhagen (DK) by PLOT VIT showroom, Asperhofen
(AT) by Querkraft Architects
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
News from the Italian
interior: Mirko Zardini, curator of the Italian exhibition at this year's
Venice Biennale, describes what's taking place behind closed doors. Architectural tour guide:
Luigi Prestinenza gives a guided tour of the best buildings in eastern
Sicily
Buildings that already get their share of media attention
Jean Nouvel's Agbar Tower in Barcelona makes a clear reference to Montserrat
and the Sagrada Familia. 'This architecture could be a distant echo
of age-old Catalan obsessions with form, borne on the wind that blows
from Montserrat'.
Another German Gehry:
museum MARTa in Herford (DE)
