The barracks from Lausanne are not afraid and create architecture where no one else looks. Tour of the faceted retaining wall and highway restrooms overlooking Lake Gruyere. Baraki as a video profile. When Jeanne Wéry and Georg-Christoph Holz first started their own business after EPFL, they already had an engineer. When he left in 2020 …
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“The time of the urban revolution is beginning,” wrote the French philosopher and Marxist Henri Lefebvre in 1970. Just two years after Paris in May ’68, this forecast turned out to be premature. But now things are fermenting again in the cities of the world. New movements are attacking neoliberal capitalism on the urban terrain. …
Austria, Great Britain, Croatia News | 26.05.2021 How will we live together? Hashim Sarkis, architect and curator of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, asks this question and invites 112 invited participants from 46 countries to present their visions of places where people can live together in the future. This year, Zumtobel …
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Scientists Peter Mortenboeck and Helge Mooshammer are responsible for the Austrian pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2020. The directors of the “Center for Global Architecture” based at the Vienna University of Technology plan together with the “most likely” team “Platform Austria” (sic!), which deals with the potential of the future and its architecture. …
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Camillo Sitt Camillo Sitte was born in Vienna in 1843. He was one of the first architects who theoretically and critically dealt with urban planning in the industrial age. Due to his architectural and aesthetic suggestions, he is even considered the “founder of urban architecture”. Historian Stefan Šolz from Charles University in Prague about it: …
Berlin, July 16, 2020 The Association of Architects and Engineers in Berlin-Brandenburg (AIV) today announced the five winners of the international competition for urban development ideas for the future of the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region. The first prize belongs to the work Growing Together Landschaf (f) tStadt, which was submitted by Berlin-Potsdam architects Bernd Albers and …
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The new neighborhood will be built on an area of 1.9 hectares of “Konvikt”. On Tuesday, the project that was chosen among four candidates was presented to the public. After the “Nei-Hollerich” project was presented to the public at the end of March, a master plan for another new quarter was presented on Tuesday morning. …
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Many magnificent buildings are empty in Bremerhaven. Architect Hannah Kordes attracts them to draw attention to their potential. slow decay Empty houses are usually a sad sight and there are plenty of them in Bremerhaven Lehe. They used to be magnificent buildings in the style of the beginning of the century, which are now slowly …
content With tactical urbanism, the government is planning far-reaching changes against the city’s massive air pollution. Why is it? In the Spanish metropolis of Barcelona, very high levels of particulate matter are repeatedly measured. The cityscape will be redesigned through initiatives. Since March 2020, about eight hectares in the city have been freed from car …
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DThe SOUP Shaping Our Urban Phuture Urbanism Festival, scheduled for September and funded by the city with a quarter of a million euros, has met with criticism on social media and in the Left Party over ticket prices and program design. Twitter users criticize that many citizens cannot afford prices ranging from 300 to 500 …
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