Conditions magazine issue #1
The first issue of Conditions is dedicated to strategies for evolution in architecture and urbanism. It is easily recognized looking back when you are able to separate actual progress from variations. Our concern is how to interpret the contemporary situation and how to maneuver and act upon the present ensuring that architecture becomes really evolutionary. (more…)
OBJEKT magazine issue #45
While half the human race (at least those who have the choice) likes to live in the countryside, the other half swears by city life, preferably in modern, stacked, loft-like apartments. Fortunately there is plenty of choice for both persuasions to appoint their outdoor and indoor spaces according to their own tastes. In fact the trend towards fusion is taking on tsunami proportions: it is perfectly acceptable for furniture, fabrics, objects and even lighting to be dragged indoors from the terrace, and vice versa. (more…)
MARK magazine issue #20
Mark Magazine #20 covers essays on living in an architectural phenomenon and the effect the credit crunch has on architecture; portraits of Keiichiro Sako and Maruicio Pezo and Sofia Von Ellrichshausen who operate in the margins of the mainstream architecture. Also in this edition, interviews with Riken Yamamoto, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee and a letter from Valencia.
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Blueprint magazine issue #280
Infrastructure is the theme of this month’s Blueprint, from the real to the surreal, the mundane to the fantastical. The cover story is COVRA’s nuclear waste facility situated in the south-west of the Netherlands. Painted bright orange and adorned with the fundamental equations of nuclear physics by Dutch artist William Verstraeten, the high-level waste facility on the site has been described as Holland’s ‘largest work of art’. Now, COVRA’s other waste facilities are being used to store artifacts from local art museums. Peter Kelly reports on this strange fusion of art and nuclear infrastructure, which strives to make buildings associated with atomic energy into symbols of national pride. (more…)
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