The beginning of this March saw the official opening of the pavillion by Alvaro Siza erected on the rocket base on Hombroich Island near Düsseldorf. The building is an evocation but also the follow-up of brick structures by Erwin Heerich and thus pays tribute to the sculptor who designed the museum island itself.
The American educational system as such is based on the project of „building up” a person with little lexical knowledge but with the capability to know where knowledge is available, how to think and focus on correlations, articulate opinions, respect differences whilst seeing them as a whole, being able to work in teams whilst also holding on as an individual.
In one of the northern districts of the Danish capital close to the sea, the local authority made a decision about building a new school back in the late 1990s. A Copenhagen-based office of architects named Arkitema won the tender published for the project.
The paronomasia of the title also expresses the urbanistic orientation of the volume. Its authors are lecturers with the Urbanistic Department of BME (Budapest Technical University) – they are professionals who do not separate the terrains of urbanists from those of architects.
Sitting on the lot at issue, the two-storey blck of flats with an outside corridor towards its cortile lost its Eclectic-style facade architecture after World War II which was even more exuberant than usual the building and only attracted attention by its naked insignificance for decades.
The tender for one of the newest universities of Denmark was won by Henning Larsen Architects in 2000. Four years later IT University moved into its new home built in a corner of the northern part of Oerestad, the newest district of Copenhagen nearest the inner city.
Compared to its significance, the monumental oeuvre of Iván Kotsis is less widely known. The wider public – that is non-professionals with some architectural erudition – have probably heard of only one of his projects which does not even exist any more.
The reconstruction of the main building housing the Faculty of Arts of Loránd Eötvös University Tudományegyetem in Múzeum Boulevard has just been completed. Its facades facing the boulevard and Trefort Garden are graced by coloured brick and glazed ceramics almost invisible before the facelift.
Frigyes Kőnig’s interests are – simplified – representations of space, quasi-historical, archaic and reproductive representation, plastic representations of people. He explores basic visual problems, such as vision, proportions, different perspectives and how they alter what we see, in his works that are still autonym, and aesthetically valuable.
Sitting on a lot with exceptional faculties and a panoramic view, there are three edifices here: a main structure with a garage on the southern confines and an auxiliary building of also residential function along the northern one. Erected in the 1930s, the main building is a single-storey structure with a T-shaped design evokes Romantic atmosphere.
Nowadays it is a sort of commonplace to refer to Switzerland as a great power in architecture even outside the world of professionals in the narrow sense. Many architects and designers of international fame, excellent schools of architecture, the relative abundance of money and fastidiousness (that of design, execution and clients) probably owing to the beauties of its natural environment…
Supporting newly started minor enterprises by providing them rooms to rent, an incubator house relies upon the rich infrastructure of the location. Hidden behind the label „industrial park”, the idea of high standards illustrates the intended directions of development as opposed to the heterogenuos uncertainty of native reality in Hungary.