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De Riscal in Elciego is Frank Gehry’s second building in Spain Three shops, one client,
one architect: three new shop interiors in Graz (AT) by purpur Le Corbusier’s Saint-Pierre
church has been realized posthumously in Firminy (FR) In Szugló (HU),
a suburb of Budapest, one of the country’s largest snooker and
pool establishments recently opened its doors Francesca Ferguson has
been selected as the new director of the Swiss Architecture Museum in
Basel (CH) Reality check: kindergarten
with multi-purpose hall, Outgaarden (BE) and more...
New projects
Zurich architects Isa
Stürm and Urs Wolf have designed a museum in Teufen (CH) where
cars are exhibited in dynamic racing spaces A creative use of voids
gained architects Dinko Peracic and Roman Silje the first prize in a
competition for the new building of the Civil Engineering Faculty in
Osijek (HR) The Kopernik Research
Center in Warsaw (PL) by RAr2 Architecture Laboratory is an elaborate
example of 'architectural erosion' FBW Architects’
design for the ‘Omnizorgcentrum’ in Apeldoorn (NL) offers
the promise of a better life for the have-nots for which the buiding
is intended In their design of a cultural
centre in Soignies (BE) L’Escaut Architecture once again prove
that contemporary architecture does not have to mean a break with the
past Three new housing projects
in Bratislava (SK) show how young Slovakian architects are managing
to skate over the difficult terrain of housing production in the Slovak
capital
5+1
One of the upcoming Italian architecture firms of the moment is 5+1
of Genoa. A10’s Daria Ricchi spoke with two of the partners, Alfonso
Femia and Gianluca Peluffo, about their work and architecture in Italy.
New buildings
Drozdov&Partners'
sushi bar in Kharkov (UA) is a fascinating play of light and glass In Stockholm (SE) Johan
Celsing has designed a transparent envelope for Sweden’s largest
publishers Peter Barber has created
an eclectic marvel with his Donnybrook housing scheme in London (UK) G.A.S. Architekten make
personal space more collective and vice versa, as shown in their housing
project in Eysins-Nyon (CH) In Jurmala (LV), young
architects Infinitum designed a wooden gymnasium that blends well with
its surroundings Randic and Turato’s
school in Krk (HR) is the result of a happy synergy The precision and commitment
G+W arquitectos expended on the design of a kindergarten in Madrid (ES)
extended to helping to build it Is the Gruta das Torres
Centre on the Azores (PT), designed by architects SAMI, the new gateway
to Atlantis? The houses in Witbrant-Oost
– a suburb of Tilburg (NL) – by Erna van Sambeek and Jacq
de Brouwer, display an unusual inversion With the extension of
a primary school, AAC’s Marc Belderbos and Marc Vande Perre have
inserted a foreign object into the cityscape of Brussels (BE) Unhindered by the restrictions
that applied to the exterior of a mixed-use building in Prague (CZ),
Zdenek Franek let himself go in the courtyard PLAN01 has created a museum
in Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne (FR) which meets the client’s wish that
the building should blend into the landscape In Ljubljana (SI), Bevk
Perovic challenge the conventions governing the single-family house With a limited number
of highly focused interventions, Louis Paillard has transformed a former
steel industry building in Valenciennes (FR) into an arts school In Sipoo (FI), Sari Nieminen
designed a school that is a village in itself
Limitless glass
Glass’s role in architecture is unique: while concrete, wood and
steel fulfil the most elementary function of a building in the form
of space-defining constructions and loadbearing walls, glass connects
the interior and exterior of a building. For architects, the realization
of that connection is a perpetual quest for the right balance between
light, views and warmth in relation to a particular place, orientation
and climate. An inspiring quest revealing the relation between the production
process, the properties and the application of glass.
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
Vesna Vucinic explains
why Belgrade today is unlikely to attract any attention for the quality
of its urban design or new architecture A building boom is currently
turning classical Vienna into one of Europe’s must-see cities
for anyone interested in contemporary architecture. An architectural
tour of Vienna with A10’s Oliver Elser Office: Rothuizen van
Doorn ’t Hooft’s fortified office in Breda
Buildings that already get their share of media attention
UN Studio’s Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart is anything but a pointlessly
spectacular sculpture, as Ursula Baus writes. ‘Its expression
suits the purpose of the building, which is about the interplay of technology
and design.’ Moreover, she praises it as ‘an incisive structure
on the outside, a thoroughly informative, entertaining, yet not overloaded
exhibition scenario inside’.
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De Riscal in Elciego is Frank Gehry’s second building in Spain
