'Il buono volcano': Renzo
Piano's volcanic shopping mall in Naples (IT) Artist Olafur Eliasson
designs a 'rainbow roof extension' for the ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus
(DK) Cité de l'Architecture
opens in Paris (FR) Update: Madeira Facelift for Communist-era
schools in Tirana (AL) Reality check: Citroën's
Champs-Elysées showroom, Paris (FR) and more...
New projects
Palatium Stúdio
collaborates with four other firms to design ten stations for Budapest
's fourth metro line (HU) 24H architecture's building
for the Rudolf Steiner College in Rotterdam (NL) reinterprets Steiner's
philosophy Dekleva Gergoric arhitekti's
winning proposal for the redevelopment of Ljubljana's tobacco factory
grounds (SI) The Power Fold tool by
Atelier Data has won the Lisbon Ideas Challenge By winning the competition
for the design of the Czech National Library in Prague (CZ) Future Systems'
Jan Kaplicky finally gets an opportunity to design a major project for
his native country
Andrès Jaque
Speaking with Ariadna Cantis, Spanish architect Andrès Jaque
pleads for a new definition of the role of the architect in society:
‘I think it is akin to that traditionally played by hostesses:
to bring together different actors and enable them to develop emotional
connections’.
New buildings
Reiach and Hall's Forth
Road Bridge toll canopy in Edinburgh (UK) In their design for a
library building in Grosuplje (SI), A.biro respond to a mixed context
with an equally heterogeneous building C+HO_aR and Tomas Pejpek
designed a home on top of a former grain silo in Olomouc (CZ) Selgascano architects'
silicone house in Madrid (ES) seems to have sprung naturally from the
ground The addition to the Lateran
University Library in Rome (IT) by King and Roselli In Paris (FR), X-TU architecture
translated the required segregation in a police station into a recognizable
two-tone structure In their design for an
apartment building in Bjelasnica (BA), Studio Non-Stops breaks with
standard alpine architecture FKL architects' Reuben
Street housing in Dublin (IE) Modus architects' heating
plant in Bressanone (IT) is also a skating rink Does the community centre
in Corpataux (CH) by nb.arch and 2b architectes ignore or mimic its
context? Yannis Aesopos tells the
ins and outs of the office building he designed in Athens (GR) Ivana Franke and Petar
Miskovic's pastry shop in Zagreb (HR) is a serious minimalist joke
Glass eyes
Just as buildings are often compared to bodies, so windows are often
called their eyes; they allow light to enter spaces and users to look
outside. And like human eyes, they are one of the most expressive architectural
elements of a building, giving it much of its personality.
Materia's view on the latest materials
There is some confusion about the meaning of ‘textile’.
It is sometimes thought to be a separate class of material whereas in
fact textiles are the result of a processing technique that can be applied
to many materials. For example, there are textiles made of wood and
metal.
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
Sander Laudy puts the
forthcoming Expo 2008 in Zaragoza (ES) in the context of the recent
successes and disasters of other Expo cities Moscovite housing production
comes in two sizes: large and extra large (RU) An architectural tour
guide of Athens’ post-Olympic architecture (GR) Home: August Schmidt’s
timber addition to a listed dwelling in Trondheim (NO)
Buildings from the margins of modern history
Maria Topolcanska praises the endangered Hotel Kyjev and Prior Store
in Bratislava (SK). Together they form one of the most exciting examples
of the city’s rich heritage of post-war modernism.
'Il buono volcano': Renzo
Piano's volcanic shopping mall in Naples (IT)
