Museum aan de Stroom,
Antwerp (BE) by Neutelings Riedijk Luigi Bocconi University,
an Irish milestone in Milan (IT) Hungarian architecture
centre KÉK homeless – again’ Update: Ticino A new Guggenheim near
Bilbao? Splitterwerk’s Frog
King, Graz (AT) and more...
New projects
Student housing, Paris
(FR) by OFIS Sports hall, Cracow (PL)
by Piotr Lewicki and Kazimierz Latak Mixed-use complex, Milan
(IT) by DEMO Architects Towers and square, Tirana
(AL) by 51N4E and De Architecten Cie. Office building, Preston
(GB) by Moxon Architects Mixed-use complex, Budapest
(HU) by t2a_Turányi&Turányi Architects
Mauri Korkka
Seldom has an architect received as much tacit support from friends
and colleagues as Mauri Korkka who, with two posters and a fine idea,
had made ¶t through to the final six vying for the honour to design
the new premises of the Stockholm City Library. In the end Korkka shared
third prize, but given that the international competition had attracted
a massive 1170 entries, the inevitable disappointment was tinged with
pride.
New buildings
Residential and office
building, Sofia (BU) by Aedes Studio Holiday cabin, Fosen (NO)
by Fantastic Norway Two residential projects,
Crans-Pré-Céligny (CH) by Group8 School extension, Falmouth
(GB) by Urban Salon Architects Office building, Warsaw
(PL) by JEMS Gallery, Berlin (DE) by
bfs d Bank building, Bilbao
(ES) by NoMAD Hairdressing salon, Belfast
(IE) by Robert Jamison Architects Time-out hotel, Amsterdam
(NL) by GDA Apartment house, Ancona
(IT) by Cherubino Gambardella Factory conversion, Tallinn
(EE) by Ars Projekt
Pure plastic
The space-age fantasy of a plastics-dominated -future did not come true
in the form envisaged in the 1960 s. But although we may not live in
the world of Roger Vadim’s Barbarella or Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey (both films date from 1968), plastic is omnipresent
in our world; we are surrounded by it in our daily lives, often without
being consciously aware of it. Cars, mobile telephones, computers, clothing,
furniture, packaging, paint and not least buildings, are unimaginable
without plastics, however much we may aspire to ecological honesty.
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
Between the 1970s and
the mid 1990s, little new architecture in Wallonia was worthy of note,
but since then there has been a sense of change in the French speaking
part of Belgium A guided tour of restored
modernist buildings in England Profile: Izaskun Chinchilla
(ES) Office: Kusy Panak Architects’
studio in a former water tower, Bratislava (SK)
Buildings from the margins of modern history
Anne Isopp reveals her sympathy for the brutalist University and City
Library (1963-1967) in Cologne (DE), designed by Rolf Gutbrod. It is
a building which the owner and user, Cologne University, does not fully
appreciate, and which is already showing some worrying signs of decay.
Museum aan de Stroom,
Antwerp (BE) by Neutelings Riedijk
