The acoustic barrier-cum-showroom
by Kas Oosterhuis / ONL along the A2 motorway between Amsterdam and
Utrecht (NL) Transsylvanian manga:
the conversion of a brick-vaulted basement in Romania into a cool bar
space Günther Behnisch's
new building for the Akademie der Künste on Potsdamer Platz seems
to bring modernism back to Berlin's centre (DE) The much-discussed expansion
of St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre (RU) Zechner & Zechner's
airport control tower in Vienna (AT) An overview of the new
stadiums that have been built for the 2006 Football Worldcup in Germany Recent plans for remodelling
late modernist ensembles show how out of touch Berlin (DE) is with the
current international debate on cities
House or sculpture? A fairytale-like apartment block in Copenhagen (DK) An alumnus's view on the
search for a new chairman of London's Architectural Association (GB) and more...
New projects
HS99’s competition
winning design for the university library in Katowice (PL) offers both
an architectural and an urban intervention ANCE's competition for
a house of the future provides opportunities for the younger generation
of architects (IT) Europan winners exe-arquitectos
improve Tromsø (NO) with their urban interventions Youth services building
in Tallaght (IE) by Henchion-Reuter Architects Young architects BWK from
Zurich became local heroes by winning a competition for Lausanne's Art
Museum (CH) Centra Nams in Riga: a
mixed-use complex designed by Ugis Senbergs (LV) Danish office HLT proposes
an aluminium-clad concert hall for Uppsala (SE) AllesWirdGut transform
the site of a former steelworks in Esch-sur-Alzette (LU) into a public
square
Hyperrealist Andreas Hild
Andreas Hild of Hild und K works on the poetic enhancement of everyday
architecture. It is not inventions that interest him but discoveries.
‘It is my job to recognize beauty and, in a kind of hyper-realistic
architecture, to find a crystallization point I can use to explain what
I see to someone else’.
New buildings
Muf’s first realized
building is a pavilion for a Roman mosaic in St Albans (UK) Urban park restaurant
in Beja (PT) by Santa-Rita Architects For Enric Ruiz-Geli fantasy
is a potent architectural instrument, as two of his recent projects,
Villa Bio and Villa Nurbs, reveal (ES) Italo Rota’s library
design for the San Sisto neighbourhood of Perugia (IT) Veronika Valk's sports
centre in rural Suure-Jaani (EE) is described by locals as a ‘vegetable
soup’ The conversion of an office
building in Hamburg (DE) into a residential complex by blauraum Jószef Kocsis,
together with his two sons, designed a protestant church in Szentendre,
an artists’ town on the Danube (HU) Dietmar Feichtinger has
transformed the image of stacked containers into a port building in
Gennevilliers (FR) Geir Brendeland and Olav
Kristoffersen designed an apartment building in Trondheim (NO) that
lives up to its solid timber appearance Caramel's house in Linz
(AT) is wrapped in yellow-beige lorry tarpaulin and was designed for
a four-year-old girl The Tor Vergata Laboratories
in Rome (IT) by IaN+
Focusing
on European countries, cities and regions
BTC City, Slovenia’s
largest shopping and entertainment complex is far more than a mall –
it’s a phenomenon in its own right. But is it a comfortable refuge
from the conventional city or a threat to Ljubljana's historical centre? From the moment the Modern
Movement gained a foothold in Catalonia (ES), local architects have
interpreted it in their own pragmatic way. Five recent projects demonstrate
that this 'new realism' is alive and well Free to choose among alternatives,
Lithuanian architects have been re-establishing the value of their profession
as creators of form and space. An architectural tour guide to Vilnius
(LT)
Buildings
that already get their share of media attention
Sauerbruch & Hutton designed a thoroughly ecological building for
the Federal Environmental Agency on a former gasworks in Dessau (DE).
Christian Welzbacher describes what he finds behind its colourful facades.
The acoustic barrier-cum-showroom
by Kas Oosterhuis / ONL along the A2 motorway between Amsterdam and
Utrecht (NL)
