Patrick Gmür and
Jakob Steib's 'sexy' social housing in Zurich (CH) Architects and citizens
in Sarajevo (BA) campaign for a new city square Artist Pipilotti Rist
and architect Carlos Martinez lay out a blood-red urban carpet in the
city of St. Gallen (CH) The project for a National
Cathedral in Bucharest (RO) reveals an unfortunate continuity with the
totalitarian interventions of the 1980s The debates surrounding
the results of several invited competitions in Istanbul (TR) reveal
the dynamics of the Turkish architectural community Update: Amsterdam's Eastern
harbour area (NL) The new scheme for Ljubljana's
Central Station area is of national importance, but is Slovenia's capital
ready for a 'project of the century'? and more...
New projects
With the design of a library
in Kiev (UA), Zotov & Co strike the right balance between urbanism
and nature 3XN's holiday resort in
Çandarli (TR) comprises 900 villas and a hotel, spread over the
slopes of a site overlooking the Aegean Sea László Bérces
of Mérték Studio has won an ambitious competition for
the VUEK-Ház cultural centre in Budapest (HU) A beach promenade in Esbjerg
(DK) will be Spektrum's first realized project Mueller Kneer Associates'
design for a new church in east London (UK) is not merely a communal
building but quite literally a communal work A governmenal office building
in Hasselt (BE) by architects J. Mayer H., a2o and Lens-ass has ambitions
to become the architectural icon of the Belgian provincial city Ingarden & Ewy Architects
go for contrast with their winning design for the Malopolska Garden
of the Arts in Cracow (PL)
Donaghy + Dimond
Emmett Scanlon sits down with Dublin-based architects Marcus Donaghy
and Wil Dimond, two architects who seem genuinely more preoccupied with
watching the world, than whether the world is watching them back.
New buildings
Two school extensions
in Gentofte (DK) by CEBRA and Søren Robert Lund have turned old
school buildings into 'schoolscapes' In designing a private
house in Epalinges (CH), nb.arch hovered on the borderline between simplicity
and austerity A69 architects have made
a strong statement in nondescript surroundings with their design of
a private house in Frantiskovy Lazne (CZ) Gernot Hertl has created
a generous allotment garden house in Steyr (AT) for his uncle Alfred Sporting transparency:
Emmanuel Saadi's gymnasium in Paris (FR) is open to all Radu Teaca's private house
in the suburbs of Bucharest (RO) Hotel Sotelia in Podcetrtek
(SI) by Enota hovers between building and landscape Skater/architect Stefan
Hauser has designed and built an undulating skatepark in the harbour
of Malmö (SE) The human scale of Josep
Llinàs irregularly faceted Jaume Fuster Library in Barcelona
(ES) seems out of step with its urban context Poetry by numbers: Gianni
Botsford's design for a private home in London (UK) Two non-identical twin
high-rises by ARCHES bring change to Klaipeda (LT) The first major building
by feld72 is located in Kaltern/Caldaro (IT), a town which offers an
unusually high density of good architecture In their design of a church
in Rome (IT), Sartogo architects fracture the traditional vision of
the divine
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
The Centre for Central
European Architecture (CCEA) and Wonderland are two organizations that
are mindful of the new conditions confronting (young) architects in
today's Europe. Two reports by insiders of both organizations On the occasion of the
tenth issue of A10, many of A10's correspondents have contributed to
a Europe-wide collection of projects that in some way or other mark
a New Beginning Home: Olavi Koponen's
spiralling seashell house in Espoo (FI)
Buildings that already get their share of media attention
Sophie Roulet reports on Jean Nouvel’s latest building in Paris
(FR), the Musée des Arts Premiers, which houses a collection
of 300,000 objects from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania. The
main building, a footbridge on pilotis with 10,000 m2 exhibition space,
and the enormous green facade next to the 1.8 ha garden, make this museum
a spectacle and a curiosity in itself.
Patrick Gmür and
Jakob Steib's 'sexy' social housing in Zurich (CH)
