#31 Jan/Feb 2010
OLOMOUC (CZ) - Jan Šépka has found an inventive solution for a cultural centre on a problematical plot in the historical town centre. 
SOFIA (BG) - L6 Studio is two very young Bulgarian architects – Adriana Dimitrova and Ivailo Zahariev. Like many new generation... 
AMSTERDAM (NL) - Although its striking appearance might suggest otherwise, the urban villa by NL Architects is in fact a highly rational design. 
BUCHAREST (RO) - Re-Act's thematic approach has produced a multi-disciplinary space for creative industries and an agent for change in a... 
Overview of contents
On the spot
News and observations
- Molenaar & Van Winden's monumental assemblage of Zaandam dwelling types (NL)
- Olivier Bastin of l'Escaut is Brussels' first 'Bouwmeester' (BE)
- More than from A to B: the latest crop of bridge designs
- Update: Young Brits
- Thessaloniki's new waterfront (GR)
- Reality check: Cité du Design, Saint-Étienne (FR)
- and more…
Start
New projects
- Holiday houses (UK) by Hopkins Architects, Nord Architecture, Peter Zumthor, MVRDV and Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects
- Residential landscape, Jurmala (LV) by Sergey Kisselev & Partners
- Cultural centre, Olomouc (CZ) by Jan Sepka
- Physical education facilities, Belgrade (RS) by Ivana Popovic and Milo Mirosavic
Interview
Tony Fretton: Laconic detachment
Tony Fretton talks about his work – 'my original desire was to be a painter until I discovered architecture as a social art' – and his international activities: 'As a British architect you have to work outside your own country in order to reach the scale of audience and clientele that lets you fully develop an oeuvre.'
Ready
New buildings
- Museum, Nottingham (UK) by Caruso St. John
- Seafarers' centre, Helsinki (FI) by ARK-house Architects
- House, Brussels (BE) by Gon Zifroni
- Offices & cultural space, Bucharest (RO) by Re-Act
- Urban villa, Amsterdam (NL) by NL Architects
- Town house, Landskrona (SE) by Elding Oscarson
- Bank headquarters, Vilnius (LT) by Audrius Ambrasas architects
- Home for the elderly, Zurich (CH) by Gäumann Lüdi von der Ropp Architekten
- Office building, Podgorica (MK) by ARCVS
- Apartment building, Linz (AT) by Xarchitekten
Section
Glass and daylight
Glass has long since ceased to be synonymous with 'transparency' in architecture. In the course of a century or more, sheet glass has evolved from a filling for window openings into a fully fledged facade cladding – used both climatically and decoratively – and even into a structural material. Despite this, architects continue to use glass primarily to bring daylight into a building, either to achieve a particular effect, or for the purely functional purpose of lighting a space.
Eurovision
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
- Christian Welzbacher analyses the International Building Exhibition 2010 in Saxony-Anhalt (DE), which deals with urban redevelopment
- An architectural tour of Milan (IT)
- Office: L6's garage-studio in Sofia (BG)
Out of obscurity
Buildings from the margins of modern history
Mihajlo Mitrovic's Genex Towers, also known as the Western City Gate, marking the entrance to New Belgrade, are an important landmark for the Serbian capital. Vesna Vučinić describes the distinctive beauty of this highlight of 'Yugoslav Brutalism'.
#31 Jan/Feb 2010
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