Zavod Trajek is preparing exhibition on France and Marta Ivanšek, an architectural pair, who belonged to post-war generation of Slovenian architects. The exhibition will be showing original archival material with added reconstructions of the three interiors: Murgle houses, Rooms for old people and shop called Interier. MORE…
Children’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation / Architect: Sou Fujimoto/ Photo: Daici Ano
On Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 the symposium of architecture in Ljubljana titled “Ljubljana Days of Oris” will take place. The idea for this project has been generated by great interest shown by readers of Oris magazine and audience who attend Oris and its events. Organizers are making this manifestation a regular event since year 2006, similar like they did with “Days of Oris” in Zagreb since year 2001.
W.M.Pühringer has been engaged since twelve years with the extreme project PEACE CONNECTION MOSTAR 3000. Puehringer, founding member of the Viennese group of architects Zünd up, has designed a complex sculpture to be installed temporarily on the old bridge of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This project is located in one of the most sensitive places in the Balkans, serving as a catalyst for a lively discussion about the processing of the Yugoslav conflict and has received the highest attention in the entire Balkan region. MORE…
Farewell chapel designed by Ofis arhitekti received the Building of the Year 2009 title in the category of religious building. The title was given by the world-wide architectural web blog ArchDaily. The chapel is located in Krašnja, a village close to Ljubljana, Slovenia, next to the existing graveyard. MORE…
Architectural exhibition of the group Superform will be on display until 19th of March at the gallery Dessa in Ljubljana. Superform is architectural studio, which was established by Marjan Poboljšaj and Anton Žižek. In their nine years of architectural practice, they created several daring single-family houses, which are shown in the exhibition. MORE…
Noir is a 146 square-meter restaurant in Piatra Neamt in the northeast of Romania. The task was to design a simple “warm and intimate” space, which would overlook the picturesque mountains with forests that are surrounding the city. MORE…
A Belgrade based office 4of7 Architecture will be presenting their recent production at O3on Art Space in Belgrade, 2-10 March 2010. In a series of models, illustrations and drawings, the exhibition will be showcasing in parallel: projects under construction and results achieved in the academic setting at University of Belgrade. MORE…
Through theory and best practice examples, renowned foreign and local experts will present the available integrated, innovative and creative lighting solutions at the Light in architecture seminar. Seminar will take place at The Architecture Museum of Ljubljana on Thursday, 4 March 2010 from 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. Honorary guest of the event will be prof. Peter Gabrijelčič, M.Arch., dean of the Faculty of Architecture. MORE…
CastleRock is a 3800m2 residential development located on a 12,000m2 site in Bodrum, a city on the southern coast of Turkey. Bodrum is nestled against the sea, and is characterized largely by its Mediterranean climate. The site is located near the center of Bodrum, perched on a hillside overlooking the city some 65m above sea level. MORE…
Grand architecture versus right architecture is the topic of this year’s International Convention of Architecture that will be held on March 6 at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Budapest, Hungary. Highly recognized architects invited from around the globe such as Eduardo Souto de Moura, Tony Fretton, Édouard François, Heinz Tesar and Petra Čeferin will hold lectures to present an overview of trends in architecture in Hungary and abroad. This event has become a tradition over the last seven years, having grown into the most important event for the architect community in Hungary. MORE…
Situated on the bare slopes of Bodrum Peninsula, this site provides extensive, wildly beautiful views towards the Mediterranean unfolded following the contour lines of the topography. This lead Teğet architects to create a settlement in the form of a giant open air theatre, where each level following the curve of the slopes constituted a continuous retaining wall out of stone. The detached houses are aligned along these walls, resting on them in a rythm as if they were single storey structures. MORE…
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…
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.
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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…
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…
Photo: Miljenko Hegedic
- 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Department of Landscape Architecture (Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana) is organizing an international conference titled “Dilemmas In Contemporary Landscape Architecture” in Ljubljana (Slovenia), November 20, 2009.
Invited guest speakers will present their critical review of achievements and directions in environmental/landscape planning and landscape design. MORE…
Romanian architect Corvin Cristian has designed the office interior for Headvertising, an advertising agency in Bucharest, Romania. In the old Stock Exchange building, the shipping case themed furniture acts as storage, dividing walls, young dynamic company statement and reverence on the genius loci. The meeting room has the proportions of a shipping container. The chesterfields and the oversized lamps bring a homey feeling to the otherwise austere design. MORE…
SITULA is a newly designed construction complex in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which extends over 85,000 m2 gross overhead area and containing a variety of uses. The volume of the complex is emphasized by a 72 metre high residential tower containing 20 floors, connected to the base by a smaller 8 storey tower extending along the entire building plot. Below all this is a comprehensive, five floor basement parking facility. MORE…
Situated in Rijeka’s quarter Zamet, the new Centre Zamet in complete size of 16830 m2 host various facilities: sports hall with max 2380 seats, local community office, city library, 13 commercial and service facilities and a garage with 250 parking spaces. MORE…
Photo: Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil, architect Milton Braga, 2009
At a time of world turbulence, awareness of climate sensitivity and fragile nature, the moral and economic equilibrium of our planet, the 27th Conference of Piran Days of Architecture, which will be held, as is traditional, in the penultimate weekend of November in Tartini Theatre in Piran, Slovenia, deals with new challenges of architecture: whether and how architecture can balance the multi-level global crisis of the present and direct it into civilization progress? MORE…
The series of buildings made in the more that ten-year-old career of Graphisoft Park faithfully mirror the change in the requirements of the commissioner or the tenant of office buildings. While the structure of ground plans for the first buildings contained smaller office units, even differing from each other in space, with appropriately divided blocks, the later house projects required larger and larger interdependent office spaces and therefore larger blocks. MORE…
