LOOKING FOR THE MEANING OF NUMBER ONE
The serenity of Livio Vacchini’s Architecture
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text by Stefan Davidovici
EMPTY SPACES
For how long, actually, can people find fascinating a desert with boulders. With some hills lying far in the distance. With no canals and not even a hint, for now, of little green guys.
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VALERIO OLGIATI OR HOW SIMPLE COMPLEXITY CAN TURN
Maybe all there is to say about Valerio Olgiati is:
He knows to get to the essence of what he’s doing.
A presentation of his projects could easily lack the regular data about square meters, construction year and so on. All this is simply irrelevant. His projects are nothing but what they are: a school. A house.
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THE FURTHEST VIEW EVER
That is all; an image with yellow lights, spiral galaxies and colourful bright spikes on a pitch-black background. But this image of the deep space, took by the Hubble Telescope, is literally the farthest glance any human has ever got.
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text by Stefan Davidovici/ photo by NASA
A/C KL BLUES
Born out of nothing to become a metropolis in little more than a century, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is a leading competitor for the title of Air Conditioning’s World Capital.
The mixture between tropical climate and ferocious development has been submerging the city under an infinite blanket of condensers, ever-rotating propellers, fan coils, heat pumps and cooling towers.
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text and photo by Stefan Davidovici
SEVEN
TOWERS –
ABOUT THE POWER AND VULNERABILITY OF ARCHITECTURE
What will look like, an architecture
without function? Without users and not governed by any needs or restrictions?
An architecture strong enough to create its own world, and that cancels
the border between interior and exterior? Can such an architecture exist?
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text by Stefan Davidovici/ photos by Irina Suteu
INTERVIU CU PAOLO PININFARINA
Numele de Pininfarina ne aduce in fata ochilor lumea sclipitoare a masinilor
de lux, avind la
volan actori sau piloti de curse celebri. Ferrari, Alfa Romeo si Cadillac,
sint numai trei dintre
cei mai bine cunoscuti clienti, cu care compania a avut de-aface in cei
70 de ani de la
infiintare.
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text by Irina Suteu
L’ARCHITETTURA
VISTA DA BUCAREST-
ARHITECTURA
La Romania dei primi anni 2000 è sicuramente uno dei più
interessanti e sorprendenti paesi europei. Dopo il disorientamento e la
quasi sonnolenza economica che hanno seguito la dissoluzione del regime...
Architettura, rivista digitale d’architettura, 21 Novembre 2004
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text by Stefan Davidovici/ photos by Arhitectura
CITEVA NOTE DESPRE ROMANIA, ITALIA, SI RELATIA DINTRE ELE
N-am inteles niciodata
obsesia cu imaginea Romaniei in strainatate; in mod normal oamenii obisnuiti
se gindesc intii de toate la tara lor proprie, si rar isi bat capul sa-si
formeze o opinie despre cine stie ce tara indepartata.
Dar pentru Italia Romania nu mai este, deja, atit de indepartata. Italianul
incepe sa-si formeze o idee despre Romania, si stie bine ca ea exista.
Dilema Veche, nr.47, 3-9 Decembrie 2004
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PIRELLI TOWER
Gio Ponti’s Pirelli Tower is one of Milan’s best known architectural
landmarks; and it used to be one of the saddest and most neglected.
The very first European skyscraper, heralded as a symbol of the future
when built in 1961, aged badly.
And then, a bizarre accident happened, as a small plane crashed into it
in 2002.
The big ugly grey façade got a big ugly black hole.
But this event proved to have a kind of Cinderella-effect for the skyscraper.
As the tower went into restoration, it got a new skin – scaffolding...
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TERRAGNI, 2004.
Is the architect from Northern Italy still relevant, one hundred years
after his birth, sixty-one after his death?
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A HOUSE ABOVE VIENNA
Vienna’s a great place but one of the most intriguing views it now
offers is not an intended one.
Just in the top of the Austrian Parliament – a big, triumphant,
richly decorated neo-classical building – sits a house.
A house, nothing more, grey, with two floors and a sloped roof, absolutely
banal. You can find thousands like it in any suburb of the world, but
this one is suspended in the air, and in top of the Austrian Legislature
from all places.
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photo by Irina Suteu
