NEW ZAGREB is the place to be, claim the authors GEERT DE GROOTE ARCHITECTUURKANTOOR of the winning proposal at Europan 10 competition in Zagreb, Croatia. Their project aims to enhance the relationship between New Zagreb and the waterfront. This should provide new uses and possibilities for the development of the area as a powerful magnet of urban activity. In order to reach this goal authors propose a strategy that will ensure a high urban and spatial quality, rather than a final result. more…
Two Slovene teams have won prizes at the Europan 10 competition. First we are presenting Elastik who won the Special mention prize for the project Soundgarden in Maastricht, Netherlands. The second project is of Eva Prelovšek and Aarne Niemelä who won the Runner Up prize in Järvenpää, Finland. more…
The strategic location and the topography of the site, the unexpected sight of the sea from all points of the area have given rise to the idea of setting up a compact, powerful, conceptually, all based on counterslope. A place compact and not scattered, so recognizable. A place where every house could have a terrace from which to admire the view over the gulf. A hill renewed and rediscovered, a new Gebel Zghir (small mountain). This project that we are presenting has won the first prize at Europan 10 competition in Rijeka, Croatia. more…
BorderLINE Architecture is a concept of the young Hungarian architects Marcel Ferencz and Andor Wesselényi-Garay. This concept was chosen by a jury to represent Hungary at the 12th International Architectural Exhibition in Venice. more…
Let the kindergarten become a place where an architect’s play with space blends with a child’s play. We are presenting the newly announced result of the architectural competition for kindergarten in Ribnica which is to be the biggest kindergarten in Slovenia. The winning solution designed by Bojan Mrežar, Renato Rajnar and Peter Rijavec will have twenty playrooms and will measure 4,500 m2. 360 children will play and learn there. more…
Gallery DESSA was formed in 1989 in order to establish a space for sharing and learning about different architectural ideas. After twenty years, the gallery organized 200 exhibitions in homeland and 72 abroad, adding to these more than 50 lectures on Slovenian architecture abroad and 38 professional field trips. DESSA celebrated 20th anniversary of its establishment in December. Therefore, we are publishing a fascinating history of its beginning. more…
Skolix project proposes a new set of stadards for the development of the Greek coastline. A beautiful and sustainable living environment within a truly remarkable natural setting – one that is embedded appropriately in the landscape it inhabits, while enjoying and enhancing the aesthetic qualities of northern Corfu. more…
Kolelinia is a concept for riding our own bicycles on a steel wire, a new type of bicycle-lanes.It is a city fly attempt. We are born to move, this makes us alive. The transport is not only a transport, it has to be an experience! The quality of this process reflects directly on the quality of our life. Is it possible to achieve a completely new level of transportation with minimum resources? more…
This monument to fallen defenders in the Croatian Homeland War presents four rivers that are crossing Kalovac area: Kupa, Korana, Mrežnica and Dobra. Four rivers that flow peacefully in the beginning – made of parallel metal tracks – later they overcome stormy waves of war times and continue peacefully further in flow. more…
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb—the largest publicly funded cultural project since Croatian independence in 1991—has finally opened its doors in December. The opening marked the culmination of a frustratingly drawn-out process, with the decision to create a museum first being made in 1998. A new building, designed by Croatian architect Igor Franic, has been created to house the museum, which holds collections of Croatian and foreign works from the 1950s to the present. Despite the delay and budget cuts that accompanied building construction, the new museum is extensive, covering a total area of 15,000 sq. m. The ambitious project is the first museum to be built in Zagreb in 125 years. more…
Ivana Tasev is a journalist by profession and vocation. For more than 12 years she works in the printed media, and in the last 6 years she is employed in the highest circulation weekly in Macedonia, “Tea Moderna”. She writes articles and interviews related to the art and cultural life in her country and the world. Sometimes she feels that the language is too constrained or limited to express certain delicate emotion. Therefore, where her words end, she continues her expression through photography. more…
Beyond the affluent and diverse scale of cultural events, Pécs as European Capital of Culture in 2010 is preparing redesign of numerous parks and squares. Yet another new and attractive highlight will enrich the tourist market of the city: the new cultural-art quarter which is to be established in surroundings of the world renown Zsolnay Factory. more…
The winning proposal for the sports-hall at the primary school in Mengeš was announced few days ago at the Slovene Chamber of Architecture. The group of architects with Alenka Kragelj Eržen, Gregor Košorok, Jernej Gartner and landscape architects Matej Kučina and Eva Prosen were selected to present the best solution of low- energy multipurpose sports hall. more…
The European Capital of Culture 2010 title gave Pécs a unique opportunity to transform its economic structure into a culture-based economy. The programme is designed to enable the city to rediscover its urban character, the beauty of living in a city, reclaim public spaces for the benefit of its community, and make the whole environment more liveable. The ECoC title will bring new symbols to the city to be proud of. In this article we will present the one of the two green-field investments: South Transdanubian Regional Library and Knowledge Centre. more…
The desire for efficiency of developers and contractors have handcuffed the Turkish housing typology into blocks with typically 4 units around a central core. Despite its unarguable efficiency, the result consistently creates upto a third of the units to be compromised; without views, facing other units. And eventhough generally the zoning laws allow only 25-50% of a given site to be developed, punctured by these indifferent towers, the left over green space is seldom identifiable. more…
Elastik’s Open Frame proposal offers a home for a design gallery by FRAME Magazine within an elaborate mixed use program ranging from a hotel, to apartments, and studios. Neatly fitting into the aTA urban plan, the approx. 15.000 m2 building is projected on the Grasweg in Amsterdam. more…
Adam Balogh (painter-photographer) was born in Budapest in 1971. He has been displaying his works in individual and joint exhibitions since 2000. His receptive, open personality and exotic journeys as well as the influence of Central and South America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East are reflected in his art. more…
In the beginning of September, the city of Tirana and an international jury announced MVRDV winner of the competition for the urban and ecologic masterplan. Dutch office proposed a new dense urban neighborhood with a park and public facilities at the Shore of Tirana Lake, in the south of the Albanian capital. more…
Pannon, the Hungarian mobile services unit of Telenor, designed by Budapest based office ZOBOKI-DEMETER és Társai Építésziroda, inaugurated a few weeks ago an environmentally-friendly headquarters on the outskirts of Budapest. Compared to a conventional building, the new headquarters will cut down on CO2 emissions equivalent to those generated by about 500 homes, making it one of Hungary’s “greenest” office buildings. more…
- Croatian project triumphs for simple, elegant and efficient structural concept -
Arena Zagreb, in Croatia designed by Upi-2m, has won the Structural Design of Year Award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards) 2009. It was chosen by some of the world’s most distinguished architects and renowned industry experts. The judges praised the scheme for ‘its simple, elegant and efficient structural concept – the external inward leaning ribs or columns, braced by a ring beam, supported the suspended roof.’
Recently inaugurated 200 m² fashion store located in Kolonaki, Athens is situated in two floors with large windows proving an easy seethrough to the space. Windows are not used as usual show-cases, but as a perspective to guide the vision through exposed dresses all over the room. The space of the store was reorganized and clarified to understand structural elements. Simple walls, few columns and beams constitute architectural elements. This space shows a part of a larger research that Gonzalez and Haase are working on consisting in imperceptible changes in space that can modify behaviors. more…
The new public cemetery project of Szentendre by the Budapest based A4 Studio was selected as one of the winners of nearly 1,500 entries at this year’s World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. Competing against 15 entries, the Szentendre Cemetery project first won the „Competition Entries” category within the „Future Projects”. As a category winner, the project qualified for the final of all Future Projects where it was „highly commanded” right behind the winning plan by the Spanish Miralles Tagliabue Studio. more…
Aleksandar Georgiev is interested in the sensation of sending and receiving pain. In his latest piece named THRESHOL(in process “D”) he is using the pain threshold and pain tolerance as resources for movement and as well as tools for creating different states and images within duration of the movement action. The intention is to play with perception of sending and receiving the inputs of physical touch/pain. He started from the opinion that we lose the possibilities of pure touch/pain after certain year of our life. As the time is passing and we receive more information we over do it. As this becomes a routine and our brain is just operating from memory without letting us feel it another way. more…
A total of 31 projects took part in the international exhibition for the Piranesi Award, from Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia. For the international 2009 Piranesi Award the international jury decided that this year’s award goes to: DECA ARCHITECTURE from Greece for the project Aloni house in Antiparos. more…
At the World Architecture Festival 2009 which was held in Barcelona in the beginning of November, Emergency terminal in Zagreb, designed by Produkcija 004 was awarded as World Civic and Community Building of the Year. more…
A public competition for the new civic centre at Cukrarna (sugar factory) building in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was held during summer of 2009. The winning project by Marko Studen and co-authors from the Ljubljana-based office SCAPELAB proposes the placement of three individual buildings, based on the closed city block / atrium house typology. more…
Dommo represents a line of modern furniture made of solid wood that is characterized by simple shapes complemented by a rich structure and various shades of wood. more…
New kindergarten, on the island of Krk in Croatia, is located on northeastern border of the town, amongst mostly touristic apartments and shopping malls. In such unattractive neighborhood, this kindergarten is shaped as enclosed and introverted insula, surrounded with soaring stone walls. Inside of this small town-kindergarten, units-houses are combined with open gardens, placed next to pedestrian communications. more…
Traditional old/new clothes, captured in timelessness with trend inspiration, placed in modern and elegant site of furniture lines in saloon Šenk. Multi-functionality of clothes and interior products, playing with forms and emerging in time and place. more…
Within the core of the ebbing oceans of space lies the cube. As above, so below, it is the child and mother to space itself. Drill into its core, find the creative existence inside the white. more…
Hoses at Jurčkova, Ljubljana, architect: Jože Peterkoč
Chamber of Architecture and Spatial Planning of Slovenia (ZAPS) each year organizes examined exhibition and gives annual grants for the biggest achievements of its members in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and spatial planning. This year’s event named as “Days of architects” will be held on November 12. more…
Mirodesign is a creative team presented by the owner of the fashion brand Miro Mišljen – a renowned designer and Jana Koteska – designer and a model. more…
Every year a new young generation gets addicted by design. Their passion for creating is shown everywhere. From a simple dot to a decorative initial or moving pictures, from a textile pattern to extravagant creation, from a simple revolved shape to a futuristic vehicle. more…
Music comedy From silence to music is a very succesful stage play, which has been performed over 100 times in different theatres all around Slovenia since 2006. more…
The event presented the selection from the Worldwide Logo Design Annual 2008 (WOLDA) which received more than 1100 applications in the field of innovative graphic design, logos and trademarks from 43 countries including successful Slovene participants Teja Kleč, Darko Miladinovič awarded for the graphic design of logo. more…
I wonder what secrets would grandmother’s white blouse tell us – the one with soft pleats around the neck and tiny covered buttons? A big comfortable shirt with rolled up sleeves and lifted collar – the one that has the best agreement with jeans certainly has a lot of stories to tell, too. more…
Tendril is the »fil rouge« in the image of the hotel. With its, soft lines it embraces and unites various thematic rooms. Base color is brick orange as brick symbolizes something new. Brown color bears a touch of tradition. more…
The designer’s bag or the object of desire. / The multiple-use, (permanent-use) bag. / The bag which can be a lady’s hand, bag (accessory) if it is given enough attention. / more…
Story, cought in moments of live image. The presentation of the current MEM couture collection located in the minimalistic interior of its boutique. more…
Exhibition includes selected projects of undergraduate students and video of the final fashion show entitled ‘Forward/ Rewind’. Works from international competition ‘Cultural Identity’ – three of which were awarded – will also be presented. Individual exhibited pieces are on sale.
