War and Peace – Bunker 599

Dutch Design Award 2011 Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award 2013 Design: Ronald Rietveld/RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon Text: György Szegő Photos: RAAAF The project of RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon turned a redundant Second World War bunker in the Netherlands into a sculptural visitor attraction by slicing it down the middle to reveal its insides. […]

Mongol National Archeological Museum

International Architectural Design Contest 1st Prize Concept: Barna Kovács D., Krisztina Barna Fellow designers: Zsuzsa Lukács, Bulgan Altangerel, Ochir Tuvshinbayar At the beginning of 2014 a team of young architects won the first prize of the design contest of the new archeological museum of Mongolia. Meant to be a multi-functional complex, it is also to […]

Burning walls made of Stone and Terrazzo

Sports Hall, Krk Archtiect: Idis Turato Text: Boris Dundovic Photos: Domagoj Blažević, Sandro Lendler, Ivan Dorotić, Jure Živković Even for the most accomplished Croatian architects, designing a new building in old Adriatic town cores has always brought up mixed feelings – it is both an exclusive privilege and, undeniably, a heavy burden. It takes a […]

Drawing on the Wall

Museum of Architectural Graphics, Berlin Architects: Ulrike Graefenhain, Szergej Tschoban, Szergej Kuznetsov Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Roland Halbe, S. Tschoban Foundation The museum of architectural graphics is intended for placing and exposition of collections of Sergey Tchoban Fund. The foundation was established in 2009 by architect Sergei Tchoban of Moscow-based SPEECH. Most of the practice’s […]

In the Temples of the Self

Villa Stuck, Munich, November 2013 – March 2014 Text: György Szegő Photos: Villa Stuck In the fall of 2013 the Museum Villa Stuck presents – as an anniversary project – the exhibition „In the Temple of the Self: The Artist’s Residence as a Total Work of Art”. An exemplary artist’s residence, the Stuck villa is […]

Memory Layers of a Holocaust Memorial Site

Students’ Design Contest, Faculty of Architecture, Debrecen University Text: Péter Kovács, Péter Sugár The city of Debrecen made a decision to build a holocaust monument and thus the Faculty of Architecture published an architectural design contest for this project in 2013. As a result of this exceptional initiative a winning design submitted for this contest […]

Hungary: Architecture in the era of awakening

Architektur im Ringturm, Vienna, 26 March – 2 May 2014 The latest exhibition in Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein’s Architektur im Ringturm series continues the examination of totalitarian regimes with a look at architecture during Hungary’s socialist realist era. Against the backdrop of Europe’s new political constellation, a formal doctrine originating in Moscow was adopted more or […]

Dreamland Alps

Utopian Projections and Projects Universität Innsbruck, Baukunst-Archiv, May 30 – September 7, 2014 Parallel to the exhibition “Alps, Architecture, Tourism, demonstrated by the example of South Tyrol”, “Dreamland Alps” will present 22 utopian projections and projects in the Alps. The relationship between man and nature has thoroughly changed since the Alps were “discovered” in the […]

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