Neutelings Riedijk’s
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Image, Hilversum (NL) First Bakema Fellowship
for research project on architecture and terrorism Poland's first architectural
blob ArchStoyanie, a festival
of wood in Nikola-Lenivets (RU) Eight winning projects
in French-speaking Switzerland Bulgaria’s absence
from the international architecture scene Tourists and architects
benefit from Tourist Road Project in Norway Update: Helsinki housing
(FI) and more...
New projects
Dóm Architects’
understated competition design for thermal baths in Algyo (HU) gets
a second viewing, after not having been understood by a jury of local
architects In Limassol (CY), irwinkritioti.architecture
were faced with the challenge of creating a landmark-building for a
cruise terminal with a complex, ever-changing programme Swedish artist Jon Brunberg
is planning a series of monuments commemorating all soldiers killed
in wars since 1945. He plans the first Polynational War Memorial to
arise in Normandy (FR) The redesign for Rogierplein
by Xaveer de Geyter shows that Brussels (BE) is finally getting serious
about urban design Tabanlioglu have brought
loft life into a 30,000 m2 recycled office building in Istanbul (TR) The renovation of the
Congressenpaleis in Brussels (BE) by A2RC will even include a name change
Querkraft
In an interview with Oliver Elser, Querkraft’s Jakob Dunkl, Gerd
Erhartt and Peter Sapp discuss the true reasons for banding together
into a group, why a big black box suits a sporting goods manufacturer
better than a Las Vegas-style running shoe, and whether one should invest
100,000 euros a year in self-marketing.
New buildings
Thurles Arts Centre and
Library by McCullough Mulvin Architects lingers on the bank of the River
Suir in Thurles (IE) In Innsbruck (AT), architects
Frötscher Lichtenwagner have realized their winning Europan 1996
project: a new town centre for a big, dull housing estate Andrzej Kikowski and Damian
Cyryl Kotwicki's office building in Olsztyn (PL) RAU have converted an
existing building into a CO2-free, sustainable office for the World
Wildlife Fund in Zeist (NL) In Zurich (CH), pool Architects
have re-established the connection between Lochergut commercial centre
and its urban context MPH architects designed
a crèche in Geneva (CH) that generates social and spatial activity The Franz Liszt Concert
Hall by Atelier Kempe Thill in Raiding (AT), the composer's place of
birth, is nicely balanced between the poles of trashy and ultra chic DSDHA's Paradise Park
children's centre in London (GB) eliminates the cliches associated with
children's nurseries Giovanni Vaccarini has
connected space and time, geometry and landscape in his design for a
cemetery in Ortona (IT)
Light
Although not tangible, light is perhaps the most important ‘material’
that architects have at their disposal. Light is complementary to every
aspect of a design; at the most basic level it makes colours, textures,
spaces and forms visible, but the particular quality of the light can
also subtly transform any one of these. And, of course, the presence
of light is a precondition for inhabiting a building. Light brings materials
to life, it can even endow a building with a ‘soul’.
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
Although Sofia will be
a EU capital in 2007, the city is still relatively unknown, as is the
country itself. When it comes to architecture, Bulgaria is practically
absent from the international scene Eurocentrism – the
one-sided history of architecture. A foretaste of the editor’s
forthcoming publication 'Exploring Europe' Smile, you're in the Canaries!
An 'all inclusive' architectural tour to the EU's most outlying region:
the Canary Islands (ES) Home: Liivi and Vilen
Künnapu’s weekend retreat, Haabneeme (EE)
Buildings from the margins of modern history
Cordula Zeidler discusses 66 St James’s Street in London (GB),
an oddly mannered 1970s building by Rodney Gordon, one of the UK’s
most in-your-face brutalists of the 1960s.
Neutelings Riedijk’s
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Image, Hilversum (NL)
