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Aparterre Store / Bogdan Ciocodeica Studio

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  150
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2022
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  ALPI

Platforma Wolff DJ Bar / Apio Studio

Platforma Wolff DJ Bar / Apio Studio - Interior Photography, Nightclub, Kitchen, ChairPlatforma Wolff DJ Bar / Apio Studio - Interior Photography, Nightclub, ChairPlatforma Wolff DJ Bar / Apio Studio - Interior Photography, Nightclub, ChairPlatforma Wolff DJ Bar / Apio Studio - Interior Photography, Nightclub, ChairPlatforma Wolff DJ Bar / Apio Studio - More Images+ 20

Bucharest, Romania
  • Architects: Apio Studio
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  200
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Apavisa, Ideal Work, Plus Kouple, Scab Design
  • Professionals: ProfilistLED, IR Colours

Dragos Voda 17 Apartment Building / ADNBA

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Bucharest, Romania
  • Architects: ADNBA
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2153
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  ALUKÖNIGSTAHL, Bauder, IR Colours
  • Professionals: Incona, Alma Instal Pro, ADN BPI

Urban Spaces 2 / Mumuleanu 14 Apartment Building / ADNBA

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Bucharest, Romania
  • Architects: ADNBA
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1924
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Caparol, IRCOLOURS, The Natural wood Floor Company

Lunet Signature Store / Bogdan Ciocodeica Studio

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Bucharest, Romania
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  85
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Albora Concept, Arflex, CE.SI. Ceramica, HAY

MARe Museum of Art / YTAA - Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates

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Bucharest, Romania

Open Call - Critical Discourses Essay Contest - Home|any|more|?

For more than 20 years, The Arhitext Design Foundation has been developing editorial and cultural projects that raise awareness of the national and international state of architecture, urbanism, design and visual arts. The most important projects of the Foundation are the Arhitext Magazine and the Bucharest Triennale, dedicated to the Central and Eastern European region. In October 2019, the Foundation, in partnership with the Romanian Order of Architects and the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism will organize the third edition of the Bucharest Triennale East Centric Architecture. The main topic of this edition, HOME|any|more|?, proposes an interrogative approach

Occidentului 40, Photographed Through the Lens of Laurian Ghinitoiu

Occidentului Street is fairly typical for Bucharest - a combination of villas, wagon-houses, inter and post-war structures. ADN BA's Occidentului 40, recognized in the EU Mies Prize's 2019 shortlist, is a masterclass in architectural detail and subtlety. The volume is composed of blocks, each responding to the heights and rhythms of the surrounding context.

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Evening on the Hill / Fabrica de arhitectura

Bucharest, Romania
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1785
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  S.Anselmo, Skema

Rehabilitation_VL173 / cra-de

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  • Architects: cra-de
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Finnish Desing, Griro, V-Tac

JC House / Plus Line Design

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Bucharest, Romania
  • Architects: Plus Line Design
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  257
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Caparol, Ecolemn, Holver, Rovere, Kubik Design, Schüco
  • Professionals: ALMA GRUP CONSTRUCT, Rozini, TESAEL

Kane World Food Studio / Bogdan Ciocodeică

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  • Architects: Bogdan Ciocodeică
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  180
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Normann Copenhagen, Seletti, bolia

Limelight Projects Psychedelic Augmented Reality Lightshow onto the Romanian Parliament Building

Installation art collective Limelight has transformed the Parliament Building of Romania into a eye-popping, psychedelic light show for the iMapp Bucharest International Video Mapping Competition. Titled “Interconnection,” the video utilized projection mapping (also known as spatial augmented reality) techniques to render the world’s third largest building in a blaze of shape-shifting, technicolor graphics and animations. Taking home top honors at the event, the projection required the use of 104 video projectors to cast the 23,000 square meter surface of the Parliament’s front facade in over 1 million ANSI lumens.

According to its creators, “the projection mapping shows the interconnectedness of all things from micro to macro as well as the outer and the inner universe. Conjuring emotions and feelings, the amazing display of color, light and sound aims to reopen the dialogue between the internal and the external, through a cinematic journey from the state of separation to the state of eternal openness.”

Check out animation stills and the full video performance after the break.

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White Elephants: Over-Budget, Unsuccessful, and Embarrassing Architecture Projects From Around the World

Not every piece of architecture can be an economic and social success. But there is one dreaded term reserved for only the mot wasteful of projects: "white elephants." The term comes from a story of the kings of Siam, now Thailand, who would reportedly gift sacred albino elephants to courtiers they didn't like. Refusing the gift from the king would have been unacceptable, but being sacred, these animals were forbidden from work, leading the courtier to financial ruin—a fact the kings knew all too well.

Of course, in architecture the term "white elephant" is used frequently to disparage certain projects, and whether a project is deserving of such infamy is usually a matter of perspective. Often eyesores or reminders of poorly spent funds, these projects refuse to be forgotten despite few wanting to remember them. Dotted around the world and across history, they all have the same thing in common: although they may (or may not) have once looked good on paper, they probably should have just stayed on paper.

Call for Entires: East - Centric Architecture Triennale

On Tuesday, January 26, Arhitext Design Foundation launched the second edition of East Centric Architecture Triennale, which will take place in Bucharest between September 15 and October 9, 2016. The theme of this year's edition is Drifting. The Triennale features three modules – Drifting Architecture (thematic projects exhibition), Critical Discourses (essay contest), and Arhitext East Centric Awards (projects contest) – and a special project named Agora Experiments (a workshop based on an international idea contest and multimedia exhibition).

Hotel Mercure in Bucharest / Arhi Group

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Bucharest, Romania
  • Architects: Arhi Group
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  6500
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Alucobond, Astek, Dreamscape Lighting, EGE, FRESCO, +9