On the spot
News and observations
Luckenwalde’s EU-funded station library (DE)
Public opinion clashes with professional architectural judgement in Ireland
Zagreb’s unfinished Museum of Contemporary Art (HR)
Rome-based Stalker Group designs a house for Roma community (IT)
Update: Young Basques (ES)
Reality check: Omnizorg multi-focus reception centre, Apeldoorn (NL)
and more...
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New projects
Academy of Arts, Tallinn (EE) by EFFEKT and SEA
Hotel, Belgrade (RS) by Mustafa Music
Office campus, Istanbul (TR) by Emre Arolat Architects
Mobile performance venue, Oslo (NO) by Various Architects
Office building, Bacau (RO) by Carmen Tanase and Giuseppe Pietrobon
Interview
Helen & Hard
Siv Helene Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf, founders of Helen & Hard, talk about the oil industry, recycling, collaboration and invention and about what it is like to live and work in Stavanger. Kropf: ‘If you don’t like the cafés, you have to design them yourself and if you don’t like the housing, you make your own.’
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New buildings
Shopping mall, Lausanne (CH) by Ueli Brauen and Doris Wälchli
Football stadium, Maribor (SI) by Ofis and Multiplan
Villa, Cernosice (CZ) by ksa
Kindergarten, Tartu (EE) by Kavakava
Bar pavilion, Porto (PT) by Menos é Mais
Motel, Moscow (RU) by X.Y.Z.architects
Waterfront and maritime museum, Kotka (FI) by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects
Town hall, Sant Cugat (ES) by Xavier Vancells
Treetop walkway, Kew Gardens (UK) by Marks Barfield
Water filtration plant, St. Erasmo Island (IT) by C+S Associati
Church, Jyllinge (DK) by KHR Architects
Section
Designing with light
Architecture and urban design are more than ever connected with artificial light. Nearly every building nowadays is designed with a special lighting plan and every self-respecting city has a light management department dedicated to the lighting of streets, squares and buildings. The reason is not hard to find: light not only makes the built environment visible and visually attractive, it is an essential ingredient for a safe, liveable and commercially successful environment.
Eurovision
Focusing on European countries, cities and regions
The predicted decline of Europe’s population forces architects and planners to reconsider the current building practice
Hanseatic self-confidence: an architectural tour of Hamburg (DE)
Home: Guna Eglite’s Modernist-inspired white villa, Jurmala (EE)
Out of obscurity
Buildings from the margins of modern history
Werner Bossman traces the journey of Vjenceslav Richter’s Yugoslavian pavilion for the Brussels Expo of 1958. The crisp modern building got a second life after the world exhibition closed, when it was dismounted, transported and reassambled to become a school building in the Flemish village of Wevelgem.
