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
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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.
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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…
‘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…
