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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…