© Cosmin Dragomir
Architects: TECON Architects
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Collaborator: Bogdan Brandiburg
Principal: Bogdan Babici
Structural engeneers: ing. Nicola Gospodinov
Installation projects: Seal Instal / ing. Lucian Ionescu, ing. Liviu Popa, ing. Catalin Gutoi
Project area: 410 sqm
Project year: 2008 – 2010
Photographs: Cosmin Dragomir
© Cosmin Dragomir
Architects: Ion Popusoi + Bogdan Preda
Location: Brasov, Romania
Client: Micomis
Engineering: Rozini
Site Area: 415 sqm
Project Area: 1500 sqm
Project Year: 2007 – 2009
Photographs: Cosmin Dragomir
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With the intention of creating a gateway for the city of Ploiesti, studioBASAR’s functional and architectural rehabilitation of the Ploiesti Racetrack is a direct response to the current chaotic conditions surrounding the site. Their intervention has led them to a more functional equitation and leisure center dividing the design into three zones that each represents different atmospheres and qualities. More images and architect’s description after the break.
© Andrei Margulescu
Architects: PZP Arhitectura
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Client : BLUEHOUSE
Authors: Liviu Zagan, Costin Beekman, Robert Popescu, Marian Mihaiescu
Colaborators: Aukett Fitzroy Robinson – Paul Philips, Monika Mayova
Engineers: Popp & Asociatii, Miga AirVent, Conseng
Project Area: 14,500 mp
Project Year: 2005-2010
Photographs: Andrei Margulescu
© Vlad Slavic
Architect: Exhibit Arhitectura
Location: Brasov, Romania
Client: The Evangelic Church C.A. (Augsburg Confession)
Project Architect: Johannes Bertleff, Dragos Oprea
Design Team: Adrian Ianchis, Edmund Olsefszky, Andreas Klement
Structure: Bodor Csaba
Photographs: Vlad Slavic
© Dacian Groza
Architects: Vlad Sebastian Rusu
Location: Cluj Napoca, Romania
Structural Engineering: Sc. Asiza Srl./ eng. Ovidiu Rusu
Servicess: Sc. Steve Impex, Sc Procont Impex/ Cluj
Construction: Sc. Decorint Srl./ Cluj
Project Area: 1,370 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2009
Photographs: Dacian Groza
The first Concept Art based workshop happening in Eastern Europe, will hit the streets of Bucharest Romania in 22 till the 25th October.
Come prepared, this will not be your usual fancy instructors opening up PSDs and improvising a presentation. These heavyweights of concept art and illustration will be on their toes, all willingly to provide the best educational, inspirational, motivational event possible to the participants! Students from around Europe and the globe now have the chance to surround themselves with the biggest learning force that has hit Europe yet, all eager to share their knowledge inside out abut Concept art for games and films for the next generations of artist. This is the opportunity for artists aspiring or working in the field to be exposed to dozens of years of experience both from this super lineup of instructor and from everyone attending.
You can find more about the event in the workshop’s official website.
1:1 es the exhibition space for the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The project was designed by architects Romina Grillo, Ciprian Răşoiu, Liviu Vasiu, Matei Vlăsceanu and Tudor Vlăsceanu. Images and architect’s description after the break. read more »
© Courtesy of Parasite Studio
Architects: Parasite Studio
Location: Timisoara, Lulius Mall, Romania
Project Area: 2,000 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: DUMITRAŞCU Marius & Parasite Studio
The concept design competition for the Romania Pavilion, “Exchange of Ideas”, was won by SC M&C Strategy Development who designed Greenopolis, “The green mega polis”. Name of the pavilion is term with universal meaning, metamorphosed in a fruit, the apple, which means health, knowledge, freshness, temptation, eternity. The surrounding Greenopolis landscape recreates principal elements of the nature (the lawn from the hills, rivers, grass).
The apple is divided in two parts: the main body from which is detached a slice, the secondary body. The inside architectural design has generous and multifunctional spaces, disposed on 5 floors and the access in Greenopolis follows a natural line which allows visiting all the modules without passing over any zone. Seen at Big Creative Industries. More images after the break. read more »
Twenty years after the Romanian government was overthrown and its dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu executed, Anca Trandafirescu erected a “monument ” to that dark chapter in the otherwise peaceful events of Central and Eastern Europe ’s 1989 revolutions. Trandafirescu, an architect and assistant professor in architecture at the University of Michigan, designed and constructed the large inflatable, inhabitable structure ―in the iconic shape of the head of a toppled statue ―that was displayed on the Piata Victoriei (Victory Plaza) in Timişoara from November 3 -7, 2009.
This location was the site of the first large demonstrations in the country and that led to the subsequent fall of the Ceauşescu dictatorship. The head itself is without specific identity and is meant to signify, rather than a particular hero, a toppled everyman who has in the course of twenty years following the revolution continued to await a government free from rulers of the past regime.
The name HOT AIR refers to both the unusually warm temperatures in Romania during that special week in December 1989, which helped to bring citizens out into the streets to rally against the government; and also to the large amount of rhetoric surrounding the events that ensued.
The inflatable monument was erected in association with the city ’s Young Artists/Young Democracy expo and the American-Romanian Music Festival and was a venue for visitation,conversation,and a bit of recreation by the public.It kicked off a series of planned celebrations commemorating the events of December 1989 in Timisoara.
More images and a video after the break. read more »
Architects: SYAA, arch. Adrian Soare
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Collaborators: arch. Cristian Borcan, arch. Stefan Aldea
Structure: INGENIUM CONSTRUCT, ing. Mihai Radut
Installations: ALYATES DESIGN, eng. Florentina Radu, eng. Mirela Neculai, eng. Ecaterina Dura
Constructor: VLAD GROUP
Project Area: 600 sqm
Project year: 2006-2008
Photographs: arch. Andrei Margulescu
Dorobanti tower, a new project by Zaha Hadid Architects in Bucharest moves away from the works we have been seen lately, with a very expressive structure. The 200m tall iconic tower will be located in the heart of the capital city of Romania, at junction of Calea Dorobanti and St. Mihail Eminescu, with over 100,000 sqm for mixed-use development which include a 5-star hotel (with restaurants and convention centre), luxury apartments and retail space at street level.
The chamfered diamond like structure tapers from the centre towards the top and the bottom. The meandering structural mesh expresses the change of programs across the tower.
A good move by Zaha in my opinion.
More on the structure, from Zaha Hadid Architects:
Architects: Baltasarh & Parasite Studio
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Andrei Margulescu
Architects: Parasite Studio
Location: Timisoara, Romania
Project Team: Baldea Maja, Wneczel Attila, Toma Claudiu
Project year: 2007
Constructed area: 150 sqm
Photographs: Andrei Margulescu & Magazine Architectura
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