‘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…

At twenty-eight years of age and no previous formal training whatsoever, one could say Bor Pungerčič is a bit of a late-comer to dance. But having passed through physics, philosophy, literature and architecture on his way here, he believes the experience he brings along is that much the richer.
Since his enrollment at the Faculty of architecture, which in a way marks the beginning of his involvement with the arts in a formal way, he has been consciously and intuitively expanding his realm of action. Starting with art projects, such as the network of multi-sensory installations developed for the ‘’Sensing Mobility’’ workshop in Rotterdam; or arch./urban interventions, like the project for Trg republike in Ljubljana for the ‘’Realizing your potential’’ competition, he slowly moved toward the performing arts.
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From August 14th to 16th International conference on Post-capitalist city in Pula Croatia will be held. The Conference will present the common experiences of European groups involved in mapping, planning and creating situations which escape both the capitalist logic of production of space and reproduction of life. more…

Reviving the ancient houses of the region, the architect and creator of a perfect life that is out of the ordinary, Emir Kušturica, has built a town.
The idea showed up 2002. During the shooting of movie Life is a miracle at the nearby hill. During the shooting weather was bad and in period of waiting for sun to show up, Mr Kušturica got an idea to build a house for himself. After sometime, as artist, he got new ideas, and that is how our woodentown become.
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From 5th to 12th of August in Motovun, Croatia, the 28th International Summer School of Architecture will be held. This year’s lecturers, workshop leaders and students will arrive from: Canada, USA, Italia, Austria, Denmark, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia. Lectures and presentations will be opened and free of charge for everyone who would be interested in School programme topics from the 6th of August to 9th (except on the 7th) – daily from 11.0 a.m. to 13.0 p.m., from 6.0 to 7.0 p.m. and after dinner from 9.0 to 11.0 p.m. (Cinema hall, the main square Andrea Antico) till 10th. more…

Pomi (Potential Architecture Studio) is a studio class that has been run in the Department of Architecture of Osmangazi University in Eskişehir since 2002. The studio process adopted in Pomi is predominantly based on the struggle between collectivist and individual creativity. When the priority of the collective is to create and structure a pool of materials, it gets into a process of conceptual dissolution based on the swift destruction of this pool. more…

Simona-Grazia Dima was born in Timişoara, in a family of writers. When she was eight years old she won a prize for a theatrical sketch, Lica’s Mask, which was staged by the State Puppet Theatre in Timişoara, as well as on tours throughout Romania and abroad (Modena, Italy).
This month the tenth collection of the Romanian poet Simona-Grazia Dima, entitled La ora fulgerului (When the Lightnings Start Flaring), will be out.
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Among the best designs from all over Europe, Studio 360 was the only Slovenian company to be awarded on this years ED Festival in Zürich.
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URBANITY Project reacts to radical changes in city landscape. Architects, cultural managers, sociologists and artists from 7 European capitals such as – Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljublana, Warszaw, Prague and Vienna react criticaly to globalization of environment as a form of new European totality. more…

The winning project of newly announced results of international competition for Primary school in Lavrica proposes a democratic school. Qualitative environment where users have many different possibilities to meet, learn and play. Different ways of interactions should be possible during the classes as well as during the break. more…

Anđa Marić is the singer of Kisha project, which has just released their debut album called The Summer (A nyar). “To me at the beginning Kisha was something very private. A project we all did for our souls, for fun, letting go in a musical direction we never went before. The lyrics are deeply inspired by my grandma and her mother, my life during summers I spent in Hungary, at the same spot like Ady Endre (Hungarian poet) who’s lyrics I borrowed”, says Anđa.
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The design creativity of Square One architectural studio and the technical excellence of Romanian company Ekero Concept have produced a new example of elegance and style perfectly exploiting the aesthetical and design capabilities of DuPont™ Corian®:  the interior design project of Shade bar – one of the most recent and trendy clubs in Bucharest, which opened in October 2008. more…

ilio’s corporate communication strategy has been selected for an iF communication design award . The interaction between media, brands and the consumer has developed into the primary component. Just as with products within the ilio collection, the brand adopts a playful approach, symbolically reflecting the dynamism and energy within the design
team while embodying the company slogan “the story within”. ilio corporate materials reflect the brand in a modest yet elegant way. more…

From July 1st to October 18th Slovenski etnografski muzej (Slovene Etnographic Museum) in Ljubljana hosts travelling exhibition Marimekko: Fabric, Fashion, Architecture. The exhibition explores over a half century of the company’s history, focusing on the work of the talented designers who defined the firm’s identity, tracing its sometimes-turbulent ascent from a local textile print works to an internationally recognized brand. more…

The concept design competition for the Romania Pavilion, “Exchange of Ideas”, was won by SC M&C Strategy Development who designed Greenopolis, “The green mega polis”. Name of the pavilion is term with universal meaning, metamorphosed in a fruit, the apple, which means health, knowledge, freshness, temptation, eternity. more…

Circus Fantasticus, 90 min feature, director and script Janez Burger

When the deafening rattle of war dies away, we see Stevo, scared, running about the field where traces of warfare can be seen and where his house, likewise badly damaged, stands. He is left alone with his daughter Dunja and son Small as his wife has been hit by one of the grenades. When it seems that the worst is over, a terrible rumble can be heard from a distance and keeps nearing the house as a threat. Stevo discovers, confused, that the vehicle which stopped in front of the house more…

The export risk insurance provided by Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the Ilisu project has ended. The contractually stipulated requirements in the areas of the environment, cultural heritage and resettlement were not sufficiently fulfilled. As a result, there was no longer a basis for continuing the project with export risk insurance from the three countries, thus ending the export risk insurance cover. more…

The newly built Church Parish Complex in Zagreb has the intention to provide with its contents a new life quality to the New Zagreb part of the city, particularly Travno quarter. In the course of process of creating this project, authors have been thinking of sacrality as a universal architectural topic. The essential  issue is that the church is not only a building but an “alive“ believers’ community – meeting point and a „house of prayer”.

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In this summer the fifth International Design Workshop will be held between 31st August and 6th of September in Zsennye, Hungary, providing the opportunity to the designer society from across the world to meet, discuss and work together. The workshop is open for design students, professionals, and design-oriented people from all over the world. more…

This weekend will be in Belgrade at the Fourth International Week of Architecture – BINA 2009  held a conference about the REdefining Post-WWII Housing. Conference will gather leading scholars from European universities and heritage institutes to present their answers to the acute question of valorization and further treatment of the rapidly dilapidating post-WWII housing conglomerations. more…

ŠKUC is one of the leading non-governmental organisations promoting non-profit cultural and artistic activity in Slovenia. And this year from 17.7.  till 26.7. is once again representing various young slovenian artist in festival Dobimo se pred Škucem / Let’s Meet in Front of ŠKUC .
Festival Dobimo se pred Škucem / Let’s Meet in Front of ŠKUC introduces a number of cultural events with free admission, every year in July at Stari trg square in Ljubljana.
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Folkart Narlıdere, the most luxurious housing project in Turkey, which sits on a 70,000-square-meter area in İzmir’s Narlıdere district was completed in December 2008. In the Project designed by Emre Arolat Architects, topographic situation of the site was interpreted with the search of urban characteristics such as, existing structural pattern, transportation, density and the sociological balances of the region. more…

With exhibition space of more than 14,000 square meters and a full range of modern visitor amenities, the New Acropolis Museum has opened for public on Saturday June 20, 2009. Located in the historic area of Makryianni, the Museum stands some 300 meters southeast of the Parthenon. The top floor (Parthenon Gallery) offers a 360-degree panoramic view of the Acropolis and modern Athens. more…

Plavo pozorište will represent their performance Dancing with Father on 29th June, theatrical experiment Bizarre Coincidence on 4th July and from July 20 – August 1 realize its international educational program Two Open Weeks.
Plavo pozorište is a theatre laboratory founded in 1995 in Belgrade. Plavo pozorište is a contemporary theatre, we are the group of people who, cherishing a seed of anarchism in ourselves, use theatre as the place which has credibility and in which some serious things about the world that surrounds us could be said.
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For Use, a group born of the partnership between some young Croatian industrial designers and an Austrian graphic designer, got all bent out of creative shape and designed the Twist table for Moroso.
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Library Grosuplje

The reason once happily married couples split is often a younger woman. We might add, however, that it’s becoming increasingly common for women to fall for a younger man. Maybe we do this to recall some long forgotten beauty from the past; maybe just to look for once familiar spaces that have now become full with precious memories; or maybe just to treat our eyes.
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The Ana Monro Theatre is representing their 12th Ana Desetnica street festival. Ana Monro Theatre was founded in 1982 and during the 80s and the 90s it was the only organization in Slovenia practicing street theatre in all its glory. Street theatre in Slovenia first took off when the Ljubljana Ana Monro Theatre met the Maribor National House.
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The Cursor is a comment on the current politics of representation in Macedonia. It is an intervention on the 66m high Millenium Cross built in 2000 on the mountain Vodno in Skopje. Vodno is situated on the south side of river Vadar which divides the city in two parts: the Macedonian southern part and the Albanian northern part. The cross which is seen from all over Skopje is supposed to be one of the biggest of its kind. more…

Szimpla Kert is spot where every day throughout the year on the courtyard of an old residential building several musicians, comediants and other artist represent their work. Who ever wants to endure culture free of payment and free in spirit, can visit one of the oldest kerts in Hungary. more…

It’s been a couple of years now since Silvio Vujičić (b. 1978), then a young student at Zagreb’s Faculty of Textile Technology and the Academy of Fine Arts, was touted in the media as one of the most promising Croatian fashion designers.
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In the end of May the City Council of Budapest assigned Erick van Egeraat to further develop his plans for the Városháza Forum project in the heart of Budapest. After his design won the international architect competition last year, the decision of the City Council signifies the most important step towards realization of this multi-million project. more…

Having successfully completed its first decade, Motovun Film Festival will be offering you film treats for the 11th time, from 27 to 31 July, on the beautiful Motovun Hill in the heart of Istria. Our program will again include a selection of the best films made in independent productions and by less known cinematographies.

This year’s partner-country comes from Europe’s north, offering us an insight into the Finnish part of the Scandinavian cinematography. Since Juha, a film by famous Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki was the first film ever to be shown at Motovun Film Festival, more…

Short Cuts #2 by NOMAD Dance Academy are representing the final step on their long journey. Short Cuts #2 is an international contemporary dance staging of ideas of thirteen travelling choreographers and dancers from six South-Slavic, or so-called Balkan countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Bulgaria), as well as other countries (Latvia, France and U.S.A), who had been living, travelling and creating in the framework of the NOMAD Dance Academy programme between 24 February and 22 June 2009.
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Block – the collection of poetry by Aggressive Theatre opened the festival of Mlade rime (Young rhymes) at Menza pri Koritu. Aggressive Theatre, the Association for Contemporary Art, is a group of seven young artists who share the idea that art can happen anywhere and at any time and thus can have a great impact on the individual.
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MLADE RIME (YOUNG RHYMES) by Menza pri Koritu at Metelkova mesto are opened. 15.6.2009 was the opening night of the »MLADE RIME« poetry fiesta at the »Menza Pri Koritu« venue. For poets and poetry afficionados alike, Mlade Rime is a household name. For all those not yet in the know, Mlade Rime is a series of poetry readings featuring young and new poets.
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Trimo organized the international Trimo Architectural Awards  for the fourth time and has this year received projects from 14 countries. They announced awards last week for the best national and international architectural solutions using Trimo products in a creative, daring, different and new way. more…

Fashion, as a phenomenon, has far exceeded the border-framework of dressing/shopping; it’s become ‘shopentertainment’ and brands the programs we love to watch.
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Within international Trimo Urban Crash competition, which awards the most innovative and creative ideas from students of architecture, Trimo this year received 147 projects from 17 countries. The winning solution for a cultural stage is a sculpture-like form, a unity without a defined beginning and end and belongs to two architects from Poland, namely Jan Ledwon and Alicja Chola. more…

Sushi, sashimi, kebab, spring rolls, paella, pizza. One of the most evident signs of globalisation is actually food. In any big city the world over you can eat most any kind of cuisine. Chinese restaurants were probably the first serving ethnic food abroad; today the cooler include Japanese sushi or what’s called “fusion” food – a mixture of ingredients from many cultures.
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MAECHTIG VRHUNC ARHITEKTI (Slovenia)

1. Philosophy

Our efforts are directed to bringing great ideas to fruition. We value subversive narrative behind the effective design.
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the next ENTERprise (Austria)

1. Philosophy

The provocation of the random and the unpredictable is our strategy in approaching the spatial and programmatic aspects of architecture. We work at discovering the factors leading beyond pure functionality – it is how we see the essence of architecture.
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EXHIBITION A4 in 3D by Vesna Žugić in gallery Singidunum, Belgrade which was held between May 19th and 29th was devoted to paper, a material of pleasing tactility, which lends itself easily to folding and tearing; it may be the finest gossamer tissue or robust, translucent or opaque, intimidating when empty, dangerous when filled with words. more…

ELASTICOSPA (Italy)

1. Philosophy

Constructive dreaming.
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In cooperation with the Ministry of foreign affairs of Denmark, INDEX presents Award Exhibition 2007 –  winners on tour in Ljubljana. The exhibition in City hall atrium – (Mestni trg 1, Ljubljana) will be opened between 4. – 18. June, 8.00 -20.00 o’clock.

INDEX: Award is the biggest design award in the world and is awarded every two years in Copenhagen. An award is given in five categories, and INDEX: awards the winner in each category with a prize of €100 000. more…