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…
‘From Stone Age to Roling Stones in one hour‘
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.
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Studio Pozitive fashion designers filled up the wardrobes of id:doma. Event took place on 28th of October. 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…
Launched in the orbit of life and set on the stage of eternity – the little black dress. Mysterious and strong as a woman who wears it. more…
Grand opening of theater, grand opening of gallery of visual arts Mini teater; opening »mini posters« by Arnoldvuga; more…
Maria Robič will exhibit the Charlston colourfull female dress collection. She added jewellry combinated with silver & halfprecious stones. 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.
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…
Month of Design officially started today with a press conference and opening of exhibition The pulse of wood in Slovenijales Bivanje store.
Zoran Janković, the Mayor of the City of Ljubljana opened Design in the city project at Kolovrateater bar. 36 city exhibitions Case 4 will be opened for the whole month, more than 20 events will happen across the city, award giving ceremony on 2nd Nov, Conference 09 from 5th-6th Nov and for the the first time Brands & Signs Design Expo which will happen in Slovenijales Bivanje store between 2nd and 8th Nov.
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…
In the vast flat plains that stretch from Hungar deep into Serbia is the far northeast corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bijeljina is the pivotal city in this sub-region, with all roads leading there.
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The old medieval town of Piran with its narrow streets and tightly packed houses reigns already for centuries over the bay of Piran. Maritime trade and the trade with the hinterland, salt pans and the ideal climate ensured wealth and power to Piran. Elder scientists support the supposition that the origin of the name Piran could derive from the Celtic word bior-dun, supposed to mean a settlement on the hill, while younger generation advocates the explanation of the Greek word pyr – fire, as the original settlement was primarily used as a lighthouse for vessels sailing to nearby Greek colony Aegida on the site of today town Koper.
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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…
Sofia Architecture Week 2009 will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria between October 30 and November 5 under the theme “Changing Urban Visions”. This is the second time that the Bulgarian capital is hosting the international architecture event. Organized as a Forum (featuring a weekend marathon), an Open House (free for the public events like presentations, discussions, movie screenings, Pecha Kucha Night and music lounge), and exhibitions, Sofia Architecture Week aims at involving a larger scope of people in the theme of urban reality, its impact on all citizens, how it changes and what can trigger its more inspiring and alluring course of development. more…
Photo: Smiljan Radic- Copper House 2, Talca, Chile
“Days of Oris” is the international symposium of architecture held traditionally in Zagreb, Croatia, on the last weekend in October. Arhitekst, the publisher of Oris magazine, has organized it for nine years in a row. The high criteria for lecturer selection guarantee a valuable cultural contribution in Croatian and international contexts. Moreover, the symposium has established itself as a gathering place for the regional architectural scene. more…
Rok Predin in the field of Slovenian popular music, original music is not often referred to as an individual genre. But individuality is the very element which defines music most thoroughly. Just as we know where people come from simply by the dialect they speak, we recognise some musicians from the language of their music, which is, in such a case, hard to define in the context of ordinary popular music genres or even trends.
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The idea and design of Serbian pavilion on World exhibition EXPO 2010 in Shangai was originated by the team of young architects Natalija Miodragovic and Darko Kovacev. The inspiration for the pavilion was Serbian carpet and traditional Serbian weaving; a process that symbolizes symbiosis, the unification and harmonizing of old and new, more…
Situated at the foot of a mountain on the Turkish Riviera, is a small beach town known as Oludeniz. Not only is this town famous for it’s breathtaking landscape of brilliant blue waters and vivid green forests, but it is also arguably one of the best places in the world to go paragliding.
For many of the thousands of tourists every year, paragliding is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, a moment captured through a fish-eye lens and displayed proudly on their lounge room walls. But for approximately 150 of the local men, this is not an experience but a way of life.
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Meissauergasse, 2002-2006, architecture: gerner°gerner plus, photo: Manfred Seidl
Vienna’s knack for building functional, yet livable public housing is on display at Museum of applied arts, Belgrade from September 9th to 30th 2009. The exhibition Housing in Vienna. Innovative, Social and Ecological, curated by the Architekturzentrum Wien, provides a comprehensive survey of urban housing design in Vienna from its beginnings to the present. more…
MABarchitects were commissioned for the interior reconstruction of a 200 square meter flat in downtown Athens, in an area where most of the apartments have already been converted into offices, health centers and similar programs. The architects were commissioned to design and construct a gynecological clinic specialized in assisted reproduction. more…
The reconstruction, renovation and new purpose of Kino Šiška makes Ljubljana a lively and sensitive Central-European city with vibrant culture, thus hoping to fix and institutionalise in the public eye the new, different contemporary culture. The opening week of the centre will be held from September 18th to 25th 2009 showing over 15 music and dance events, starting with the performance of legendary Laibach and Juno Reactor. more…
In the locality of Baredi above Izola there is an oilve grove of 600 trees, where Miran Adamič makes one of the best olive oils in Slovenia. The Slovenian Istra is situated in one of the northernmost geographical positions in the Mediterranean, where the olive tree still grows. In terms of its olive oil production, Slovenia is just a small dot on the world map if we consider the statistical data which show that approx. 600,000 olive trees are planted on its soil (for a better explanation suffice it to say that only one of the major Spanish producers cultivates one million olive trees).
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Tomislav Brajnović is a participant in “The Artic circle” project with his work called »Egotrip«. He was born in Zagreb 1965. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb 1993 and went on to complete his Masters Degree at St. Martins College of Art London 2003.
Recognition and reaction to the context, location of the neuralgic points, use of the local visual, symbolic and other ‘languages’, exploration of the art scene and its critical frame are the main determinants of his artistic activity. At the same time it is the search for a human dimension and ’spiritual gravity’, natural speed of life and balance between the human, the nature and God.
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The winning proposal for the University Library and Campus in Zadar, Croatia, by Njiric+ architects, was newly announced by Architectural chamber of Croatia. Authors proposed a solution for Mediterranean campus with main public program that does not follow the orthogonal grid of faculty buildings but is freely positioned in the space. more…
The Dorobanti Tower was designed to establish an iconic presence in the heart of Bucharest. The new tower that should be completed by 2013 is a unique mix of a distinctive form, ingenious structure, and spatial qualities of sky-high living. The purity of its form – a chamfered diamond like structure – will be a timeless, elegant landmark in the centre of Bucharest. more…
Few weeks ago the mayor and international jury pronounced BOLLES+WILSON winner of the competition for the new Korça City Centre Masterplan. The international two-stage competition was decided in favour of the Münster based office for its concept of ‘Scenographic Urbanism’, a choreographing of new buildings and public spaces which pays close attention to the existing grains and potentials of this small but spatially complex city. more…
Cruise down the Danube on a floating beach
Budapest is famous for its Turkish baths and open air pools, but this summer there is an unusual addition to the capital’s bathing scene: a floating beach on the Danube river, right in the city centre. more…
‘There are two ways of walking through a wood. The first is to try one of several routes […] the second is to walk so as to discover what the wood is like and find out why some paths are accessible and others are not.’ Umberto Eco – Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
The discovery of the inaccessible path has led to the idea of Hungarian pavilion. The pavilion as wood is intended to represent this path, and since it is of immaterial nature, architect Tamás Lévai was trying to evoke it with non materials: empty space, light and sounds. more…
On the 3rd of September at 20:00 there will be the opening of the exhibition “TAILOR MADE FURNITURE” at Orion Intertrade in Ljubljana. The exhibition will present products of renowned furniture company Wittmann from Etsdorf in Austria. more…
