April 2nd, 2010
First price for exterior design at competition for the pavilion of BIH at expo 2010 in Shanghai was given to Miron Ibrahimpasis, architect from (IN/OUT ARH STUDIO), Lamila Simisic and Jasmina Dizdarevic. more…
March 30th, 2010
The 15th Biennial of Macedonian Architecture BIMAS is on exhibition in the Skopje Museum from March 23 until April 3. A total of 150 works have applied, due to be selected by architect Miško Ralev. The Grand Biennial Exhibition presents the best achievements in the previous two years, along with roundtables, tours of renowned architects, lectures and presentations. more…
March 30th, 2010
Fashion With Stories is a group project of Slovene art collective Green central and fashion designers Saša Fabjan (FIN) and Rosana R. Ceglar (NIIRO). They gave life to a special »green minded« collection of clothes, jewellery and accessories, made of waste fabrics, paper, wood, plastic or even bicycle/car pneumatics. more…
March 27th, 2010
Contribution of culture is what helps a regular city to become the City. It’s a real pleasure to come across a meeting-point of such cultural-creative energy in your neighbourhood. Mohorjev klanec (Mohor’s hill) is a place like that – Kranj’s Montmartre. more…
March 25th, 2010
CET = Central European Time by ONL (Oosterhuis_Lénárd). CET is also a synonym for a whale. The Mixed Use De-velopment CET at the Kozraktar between the Petofi and the Szabadsag Bridge is both. The CET concept refers to Budapest as an important metropolitan centre in the heart of Central Europe. The CET shape somehow refers to the smooth and friendly streamlined body of a whale. The new CET development has the potential to put Budapest once again on the map of the world. Name and shape of the CET symbolizes its cultural po¬tential and commercial pole position in one of the best preserved cities in the world. more…
March 23rd, 2010
Part of the exterior of the Sacred Heart Church in Prague, 1928–1932
Architectural exhibition Jože Plečnik 1872–1957, Architect in Ljubljana, Prague and Vienna will be presented at the 15th Architectural Biennial of Macedonia “BIMAS 2010″ from March 25 – April 11 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (author of the exhibition is Damjan Prelovšek, author of design and installation of the exhibition is Eva Prelovšek, publisher National Gallery of Slovenia). Exhibition will be accompanied by the lecture on architect Plečnik that will be given by Andrej Hrausky on 25st of March 2010. more…
March 22nd, 2010
Nande Korpnik, ACMAN FAMILY HOUSE, Griže by Žalec
Exhibition Contemporary architecture in Slovenia 1999-2010 will be presented at the 15th Architectural Biennial of Macedonia “BIMAS 2010″ from March 25 – April 11 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (curators and authors of the exhibition are Andrej Hrausky and Maja Ivanič, publisher Gallery Dessa). Exhibition will be accompanied by two lectures on 31st of March 2010. Boštjan Vuga from Sadar Vuga arhitekti will hold a lecture at 7 p.m. and afterwards at 8 p.m. Dean Lah from Enota will present his works. more…
March 21st, 2010
Amila Hrustić is a young designer from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who is finishing her studies at Academy for Fine Arts in Sarajevo, department for product design. Even though Amila is very young, she has proven the maturity, which is clearly apparent at her projects. more…
March 18th, 2010
March 16th, 2010
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…
March 12th, 2010
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.
March 10th, 2010
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…
March 9th, 2010
Young, talented and with great potential. Florin Busuioc is still studying at Facultatea de Arte Plastice, Decorative si Design “George Enescu”; Iasi / Romania, section Product Design, but has already got a number of projects and competition winnings behind. more…
March 8th, 2010
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…
March 4th, 2010
Romanian label Rozalb de Mura presented “The Remains” – Spring/Summer collection 2010, but instead of various outfits there are only two: masculine and feminine that can be composed, deconstructed and built again. With no zippers and no buttons, the pieces are being held together with through hundreds of strings. Fashion for recession? more…
March 3rd, 2010
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…
March 2nd, 2010
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…
February 27th, 2010
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…
February 26th, 2010
February 26th, 2010
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…
February 25th, 2010
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…
February 23rd, 2010
Nika Ravnik, a young Slovenian designer, dazzled the audience of the London Fashion Week show A La Mode on the 19th of February 2010 with the latest collection of her label, niOka. more…
February 16th, 2010
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…
February 14th, 2010
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…
February 11th, 2010
BelaBela means WhiteWhite in slovenian. It is a product design brand representing textile and cloth designers Jana Mršnik and Vesna Štih. Our projects combine textile and industrial as well as interior design and spatial installations. We play with traditional handiwork techniques and interpret them in modern ways. Modularity is a common feature in our products. A special challenge for us is a design that gives every user the chance to be actively involved in creating the end product. more…
February 8th, 2010
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…
February 5th, 2010
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…
February 4th, 2010
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…
January 30th, 2010
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…
January 27th, 2010
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…
January 24th, 2010
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…
January 21st, 2010
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…
January 15th, 2010
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…
January 13th, 2010
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…
January 7th, 2010
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…
January 5th, 2010
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.
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December 18th, 2009
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…
December 15th, 2009
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…
December 13th, 2009
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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December 9th, 2009
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…
December 8th, 2009
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…
December 7th, 2009
Water of life, Adam Balogh
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.
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December 5th, 2009
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…
