Sydney-based firm Stewart Hollenstein has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the international design competition for a new 17,000 square-meter library in Varna, Bulgaria. Their design scheme focuses on Varna's rich history as a city known for its public gardens, and seeks to make the library a cultural center of the city.
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Varna Regional Library / Stewart Hollenstein
Muzeiko Children's Science Discovery Center / Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership
Open Call: Help House Over 860,000 Books and Media – Design the New Varna Library
The Municipality of Varna and the Chamber of Architects in Bulgaria have launched a competition open to architects worldwide to design the new Varna Regional Library. Varna, the third-largest city in Bulgaria, has lacked a proper library building for years, and the library’s collection of over 860,000 items is spread across six different buildings in the city. The new competition aims to create a single space where the collection can be brought together, while creating an attractive public space in the city’s centre.
Festival: One Architecture Week
ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK is an annual international festival for architecture, which will have its next edition in September 18th-27th 2015 in Plovdiv. Launched in 2008 as a two-day conference under the name SOFIA ARCHITECTURE WEEK, the event expanded into a more than a week-long meeting and idea exchange platform for architecture, interior design, landscape and urban environment. Through stimulating a broad professional and public debate the festival aims at initiating sustainable social and architectural practices. The diverse and intense program features presentations, exhibitions, discussions, workshops, screenings and urban interventions as well as architectural workshops for the youngest.
Vacation House / Hristina Hristova
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Architects: Hristina Hristova
- Area: 9 m²
- Year: 2015
Liubata / Aedes Studio
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Architects: Aedes Studio
- Year: 2014
Urban Module / Aedes Studio
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Architects: Aedes Studio
- Year: 2013
Slight Slope Long House / I/O Architects
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Architects: I/O architects
- Area: 672 m²
- Year: 2014
National Museum Complex - Phase I / Yanko Apostolov Architects
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Architects: Yanko Apostolov Architects
- Area: 18250 m²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: Betaconst, Museoplan, Mariya Popova Ltd, Bosilkova Ltd, Techne, +1
Conservation, Restoration and Adaptation of Church “St. Paraskeva“ / Todor Mihaylov, Elitsa Andreeva, Emilia Kaleva, Aleksandra Vadinska
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Architects: Aleksandra Vadinska, Elitsa Andreeva, Emilia Kaleva, Todor Mihaylov
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: EKOART LTD, KRUPAL LTD, Nessebar Municipality
FORA Chosen to Revitalize Plovdiv's Central Square
FORA has been announced as winner of a competition for revitalization and renovation of the central square in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city, built upon the remains of the ancient roman Forum of Philippopolis. The intervention spans an area of 57,000 square meters and exposes the intersection of several architectural and historical layers, from antiquity until the Socialist State.
Night Flight / Studio MODE
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Architects: Studio MODE
- Area: 1000 m²
- Year: 2014
Sense Hotel / Lazzarini Pickering Architetti
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Architects: Lazzarini Pickering Architetti
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: Lutron
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Professionals: Architectural Group Tzonkov
Kindergarten KITA / Conveyer
'Floating Plaza' Competition Entry / NC-Office
NC-Office shared with us their 'Floating Plaza' proposal for the competition that called for the urban concept and architectural design and development of Sveta Nedelya Square, in the city of Sofia. The main strategy for the project is to provide a clearly defined plaza for congregation in the heart of Sofia. To achieve this, the architects propose a plane which “peels” away from the north side of Sveta Nedelya Church and floats over Boulevard Vitosha. This ‘plane’ alludes to the historical use of that area of ancient Serdika. More images and architects' description after the break.
Red Apple Apartment Building / Aedes Studio
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Architects: Aedes Studio
- Year: 2013