Richard Rogers’
Court of Justice in Antwerp (BE) is nearing completion Business Centre Usce,
a modern office building in New Belgrade (CS), is a silent witness to
how ideologies can both create and destroy Brühl (DE), hometown
of artist Max Ernst (1891-1973), honours its most famous son with a
museum designed by Cologne architects Van den Valentyn in collaboration
with Mohammad Oreyzi The Swiss Heimatschutz
has been fighting for the preservation of characteristic cultural and
architectural features since the end of the 19th century. On its centennial,
it is attracting attention with progressive new ideas Update: Viennese 'visionairies'.
Five practices based in Vienna (AT) that are less interested in good
design than in exciting concepts and more...
New projects
Münchhausen’s
pub in Dunte (LV), a design by Armands Bisenieks architects, is an upside-down
building the baron himself could be proud of Past, present and future
play an equal role in Manuel Herz’s deconstructivist design for
a Jewish community centre in Smolensk (RU) Lahdelma & Mahlamäki
managed to beat an impressive list of big names in their competition
winning design for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
(PL) Andrés Jaque is
transforming a 1940s holiday home in Coruxo (ES). The new structures
will be covered with a foam rubber material, similar to the stuffing
of sofas and teddy bears Elastik, a network of
architects operating from Ljubljana and Amsterdam, have designed a building
organized around a helix device to create a new urban meeting point
in Tirana (AL) Having won the European
section of the Holcim Awards – which were recently presented in
Genova (IT) – Luigi Centola and Maria Giovanna Riitano, Christoph
Ingenhoven and Jürgen Mayer H. are now competing for the one million
dollar jackpot By the end of the decade,
the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava (SK) will have been reconstructed
and extended to a design by Bratislava-based architects BKPS Kusy-Panak Connecting one bank to
another is only one aspect of Hakes Associates’ bridge designs,
as shows their Mobius Bridge in Bristol (GB) Fabrizio Rossi Prodi’s
winning design for the provincial headquarters of Arezzo (IT), a building
in the tradition of Aldo Rossi
NL Architects
In the 1990s, Amsterdam-based NL Architects gained a reputation for
brilliant ideas, but until recently they did not get too many opportunities
to test that brilliance in built form. Paradoxically, just when the
Dutch economy fell into recession, this all started to change. Nowadays,
NL Architects are building more than ever before, with several projects
under construction in the Netherlands and one in Korea. NL’s Kamiel
Klaasse and Pieter Bannenberg talk about their latest work.
New buildings
In the Comeragh Mountains
(IE), Bates Maher architects created four hermitages, spaces where visitors
can reflect on both the outer landscape and the inner mind What began as a limited
commission to renovate the facades of a 1970s office tower in Pécs
(HU), ended in the realization of two new court rooms designed by architect
Jószef Koller In the polder landscape
of Overijssel (NL) lies a floating house designed by B+O, a practice
responsible for several remarkable homes in the northern Netherlands Two apartment buildings
in Ljubljana and Izola (SI) by Ofis and Bevk Perovic show the new face
of Slovenian social housing Architect Josef Hohensinn
did not find it all that far-fetched to take home comfort into consideration
in his design for a justice and detention centre in Leoben (AT) Polaris’s logo-like
pavilion in Belval (LU) is as functional as it is visually effective Adrian Berger and Lukas
Huggenberger have transformed the Albisriederhaus in Zurich (CH), a
1930s building, without resorting to the usual juxtaposition of old
and new In a shared church centre
in Munich-Riem (DE) for Catholic and Protestant believers, Florian Nagler
privileges the urban context over the churches’ aim of self-representation Petr Hajek, Tomas Hradecny
and Jan Sepka’s design for a villa in Beroun (CZ) is as simple
as it is playful In Budapest (HU), Zoboki,
Demeter & Associates put the Ludwig Museum, National Philharmonic
Hall and Festival Theatre under one roof, while giving each institute
a distinct identity TeCe Architects teamed
up with Zeynep Atas to design a complex of university campus buildings
that withstands the harsh climate of Cyprus
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
Claes Sörstedt writes
about Swedish post-Wallpaper emptiness and explains why you shouldn’t
bother to go to Sweden for modern architecture – yet A10’s Danish correspondents
take you on a guided tour of the best architecture in Copenhagen. Like
any true Copenhagener, you’ll need a bike to get around
Buildings
that already get their share of media attention
Is the housing of La Pirotterie in the French town of Rezé just
another effort to create high-style architecture for a low price? Sophie
Roulet reflects on the 30 prototypes, masterplanned by Périphériques
and designed by Marin+Trottin, Jumeau+Paillard, Jacques Moussafir, Stalker,
Actar and l’Australien.
Richard Rogers’
Court of Justice in Antwerp (BE) is nearing completion
