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Reimagining the Complete Neighborhood through Urban Renaturing

Olivia Poston — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000

The ReGreeneration project, a Horizon Europe project led by Inetum and supported by C40 Cities, ARUP, Placemaking Europe, and several others, operates as an active collaboration with local governments, private companies, academia, and civil society organizations at the intersection of urban regeneration, green public spaces, and neighborhood-scale design. Its premise addresses how European cities are built and maintained and how they experience a changing climate, arguing that cities must fundamentally change to remain livable under accelerating climate pressures.

The Chapel - Jewel-Box Intervention / Vinklu

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000

In the dense tapestry of European cities, where space is a premium and forgotten corners abound, The Chapel emerges as an act of architectural alchemy. Because this is a truly unique example for Europe, not only for Romania.

Aparterre Store / Bogdan Ciocodeica Studio

Luciana Pejić — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000

With a mix of contemporary and iconic, walking the line between public and private, between a store and a home, the space translates the brand’s deeply personal approach into a sensorial experience. Aparterre was envisioned more as a private residence with the doors wide open for fashion enthusiasts and design lovers: a space where you feel at home surrounded by beautiful apparel, special objects, and a myriad of colors and textures.

Platforma Wolff DJ Bar / Apio Studio

Luciana Pejić — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Platforma Wolff is Bucharest's newest nightlife establishment. It's a DJ Bar, which blends both the concept of a club and a bar dedicated to music.

Dragos Voda 17 Apartment Building / ADNBA

Hana Abdel — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Located within an old and diverse urban fabric with long plots specific to Bucharest, the proposal appears, at first glance, as a compact volume. However, the long facades showcase a certain playfulness through an interplay of added and subtracted volumes that gives away the diversity of the interior living spaces and apartment types.

Urban Spaces 2 / Mumuleanu 14 Apartment Building / ADNBA

Andreas Luco — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Bucharest's central areas are faced nowadays with fast and somewhat chaotic densification. While we believe that density can, and many times must be seen as a form of sustainability, we also admit that the relationship between habitation within an old urban fabric and the increase of its density is often a fragile one, as places might lose their character. Our project seeks an appropriate answer to this problem by mediating between different sizes and densities in a central neighbourhood with small streets, long, narrow plots, and a puzzle of old and new buildings of all types and scales, not far from the socialist intervention of a large boulevard and its "curtain" of tall apartment blocks.

Lunet Signature Store / Bogdan Ciocodeica Studio

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 19 May 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Lunet is a brand that focuses on creating affordable eyewear with a strong accent on quality and design. Since their launch in 2019 the aim was a complete, effortless and seamless customer experience. At first active exclusively online, then transitioning to a more direct customer connection with the help of the Home Try On platform, allowing costumers during the pandemic period to order for free the models they liked and try them on before purchasing.

The Value of an Address: How Cities Around the World Utilize Street Names and Building Numbers

Kaley Overstreet — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 07:30:00 +0000

In cities across the United States, an address is more than just a street name or a building number- but a brand that translates directly into a symbol of wealth and prestige. Take the tallest residential tower in the country, 432 Park Avenue in New York City, which doesn't actually sit quite on park avenue. Instead, it’s neighboring lot to the east sits on Park Avenue, and this mega structure actually faces 56th avenue- a significantly less iconic street. However, this inflated valuation doesn’t happen everywhere. Cities in other countries don't place the same weight on an address and refer to buildings or locations as landmarks or by their appearances, which doesn't force a high monetary value based on an address or a marketing scheme alone. How do places in the world differ in how they brand buildings and streets in cities, and what does that tell us about their urban culture?

Romania Reimagined: Cultural Projects Built for Modernity

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:35:00 +0000

Romania's modern architecture merges global perspectives with local traditions. From pre-modern styles to post-revolution work that began in the early 90s, the country's built environment is incredibly diverse. From cities like Bucharest to Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara, modern projects are being designed between historic structures.

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

Paula Pintos — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 03:00:00 +0000

How to produce architecture in a city described by its destructions, where the population has so long been diminished in its power of memory and its individuality? In this situation of discontinuity, it is a question of awakening the gaze: Convene history as topical news. It's a strong act, a political act that the French - Lebanese architecture firm YTAA proposes to question.

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

Rene Submissions — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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

Katherine Allen — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:00:00 +0000

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.

Evening on the Hill / Fabrica de arhitectura

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The whole project was meant to provide an intimate environment in a densely populated area relying on energy and resource efficient eco-design. The five houses share a private road, a courtyard that is divided into smaller units, an indoor swimming pool and a wonderful SPA area. This creates a unique mix of public, semi-public and private spaces that beautifully enhance dwellers’ sense of community and closeness to nature.

Rehabilitation_VL173 / cra-de

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:00:00 +0000

The story of the house on Vasile Lascar St. is the story of many modernist houses in Bucharest: it has undergone numerous changes in ownership, usage and general configuration between 1946 when it was built, and 2014, when we were appointed to revitalize it.

JC House / Plus Line Design

Sabrina Leiva — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 09:00:00 +0000

The house is located on a low traffic street with an ordinary residential use of a four-member family. The topography places the house between two adjoining blind walls, which divides the space into two yards: a limited front yard, which provides street access and connects with the private, landscaped backyard. A third “courtyard” is created indoors, beneath the staircase. This empty space stretches to the width and height of the house, from wall to wall and has an oversized skylight providing ample light.

Kane World Food Studio / Bogdan Ciocodeică

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 05:00:00 +0000

Located in an upcoming neighborhood of the city, the restaurant aims to be a landmark for the regeneration of the old distressed urban tissue. It’s approach is simple and clear, using natural materials and mixing them with the abundant greenery. Both architect and client agreed upon using design as a tool for reaching a particular atmosphere rather than aiming to enhance a certain type of image.

Limelight Projects Psychedelic Augmented Reality Lightshow onto the Romanian Parliament Building

Patrick Lynch — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:30:00 +0000

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.

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

Sharon Lam — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 09:50:00 +0000

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.